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Chapter 1 All We Are
Pete's tired of being a party boy. He wants something out of life, but he's just not sure what. Payton is a doctor serving her fellowship at St.Joseph hospital in Chicago. Circumstances cause th...
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Chapter One
‘What kind of person just abandons their own flesh and blood and leaves them to die?’ This is what was going through Dr. Payton Wells’ mind as she watched through the glass into the NICU, or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as the one day old abandoned infant struggled for his every breath.
Baby J, as he had already been dubbed by the nurses on duty earlier, J for John, had been found in a trash receptacle located in the south end tunnel of the Chicago Subway Station.
Cold and bloody with his umbilical cord wrapped around his body, he had been left there exposed to the elements. Luckily a passing homeless man had heard the infants weak wails. When the old man had reluctantly investigated, he thought he might have been seeing things.
Once he had snapped out of his shock, he quickly wrapped the baby in his dirty thread worn sweater and rushed to deliver him to the nearest policeman found patrolling the Southside L area. Seventeen minutes later, the same policeman burst into the ER of St.Joseph Hospital in downtown Chicago clutching the infant close to his chest.
Payton shook her head in amazement at Baby J’s incredible will to live. Having done everything thing she could in the past few hours to insure that he lived through another day, the infants ultimate fate was out of her hands. She was now leaving instructions with the night nurse Mindy, not to hesitate to page her at the slightest change in his condition.
“Doc, you’ve been on duty for 18 hours strait, go on home, get some sleep and then enjoy your day off!” Mindy scolded. Payton rolled her eyes as she signed off on some of the night orders for Baby J and the other infants in the neonatal ward. She knew the older black women only meant well. Mindy was the self-appointed Mother figure of all the Doctors and nurses on the NICU floor.
“I know, I know, it’s just hard when a case like this comes in….” Payton mumbled. She was reluctant to leave, sensing that baby J wasn’t quit out of the woods yet.
The order papers were suddenly pulled out of her hand, while at the same time Payton was gently thrust toward the ward doors that led to the outside corridor. “You know that Dr. Ives is here now, and he can take care of anything that comes up.” Mindy was now using her stern MOM voice. Then her voice softened.. “Payton, you’ve done everything you can tonight, go home hun. If anything comes up that I feel your needed for, I promise I’ll page you.” Mindy laid her hand on Paytons’ shoulder and gave it and encouraging squeeze. “Go get some rest girl.”
Payton glanced toward the glass again then nodded her head once, and made a sharp left turn down the hall toward the staff locker rooms.
Mindy looked over at Claire, one of the other NICU nurses on duty that night, and shook her head at the younger woman. “That girl just cares to damn much.” she sighed “She’s gonna’ burn herself out.” With that she then went into the nursery to check the vitals on baby J and the other infants that were being cared for there.
‘What kind of person just abandons their own flesh and blood and leaves them to die?’ This is what was going through Dr. Payton Wells’ mind as she watched through the glass into the NICU, or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as the one day old abandoned infant struggled for his every breath.
Baby J, as he had already been dubbed by the nurses on duty earlier, J for John, had been found in a trash receptacle located in the south end tunnel of the Chicago Subway Station.
Cold and bloody with his umbilical cord wrapped around his body, he had been left there exposed to the elements. Luckily a passing homeless man had heard the infants weak wails. When the old man had reluctantly investigated, he thought he might have been seeing things.
Once he had snapped out of his shock, he quickly wrapped the baby in his dirty thread worn sweater and rushed to deliver him to the nearest policeman found patrolling the Southside L area. Seventeen minutes later, the same policeman burst into the ER of St.Joseph Hospital in downtown Chicago clutching the infant close to his chest.
Payton shook her head in amazement at Baby J’s incredible will to live. Having done everything thing she could in the past few hours to insure that he lived through another day, the infants ultimate fate was out of her hands. She was now leaving instructions with the night nurse Mindy, not to hesitate to page her at the slightest change in his condition.
“Doc, you’ve been on duty for 18 hours strait, go on home, get some sleep and then enjoy your day off!” Mindy scolded. Payton rolled her eyes as she signed off on some of the night orders for Baby J and the other infants in the neonatal ward. She knew the older black women only meant well. Mindy was the self-appointed Mother figure of all the Doctors and nurses on the NICU floor.
“I know, I know, it’s just hard when a case like this comes in….” Payton mumbled. She was reluctant to leave, sensing that baby J wasn’t quit out of the woods yet.
The order papers were suddenly pulled out of her hand, while at the same time Payton was gently thrust toward the ward doors that led to the outside corridor. “You know that Dr. Ives is here now, and he can take care of anything that comes up.” Mindy was now using her stern MOM voice. Then her voice softened.. “Payton, you’ve done everything you can tonight, go home hun. If anything comes up that I feel your needed for, I promise I’ll page you.” Mindy laid her hand on Paytons’ shoulder and gave it and encouraging squeeze. “Go get some rest girl.”
Payton glanced toward the glass again then nodded her head once, and made a sharp left turn down the hall toward the staff locker rooms.
Mindy looked over at Claire, one of the other NICU nurses on duty that night, and shook her head at the younger woman. “That girl just cares to damn much.” she sighed “She’s gonna’ burn herself out.” With that she then went into the nursery to check the vitals on baby J and the other infants that were being cared for there.
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