Life in The ER::After Midnight Book 2 (Life in the ER After Midnight)
Description
Paul is a Registered Nurse working in the Level I Trauma Emergency Room of the inner city hospital in Charleston, WV. He worked the three in the afternoon to three in the morning shift, which sometimes turned into a double shift that had him leaving the ER at seven thirty in the morning and rushing off to class at a near-by college where he was taking classes to get into a veterinary medical school.
The shift provided the adrenaline he so thrived on. When the sun went down the amount and severity of the trauma patients that presented to the ER both increased. It may have been a rough shift that many avoided, but Paul seemed to do better as the stress and traumas increased. Patients ranging from gunshot wounds to the utterly psychotic presented themselves in many times rare form to the doors of the ER. Whether that is by ambulance or in the back of a pickup truck they came by the droves some nights. If it were true when the full moon rose the weirder the traumas got, especially on Fridays.
Many of the most interesting nights were spent triaging patients that were ambulatory in their decision to be treated in the ER. Paul wasn’t ever a fan of psychiatry rotations in school or at work, but he garnered many valuable lessons in studying the people that were separated from him in the waiting room by just the walls of the triage desk. There was the transvestite that would throw himself in front of vehicles and ambulances acting out seizure like activity. As well as the patient who was left alone for a weekend by his family and during that time decided to blow the front of his skull off while remaining seated on the couch and found, by his family, watching cartoons. It was an extraordinary job, but one Paul found unfathomably different and on some nights quite entertaining with an Elvis impersonator dancing up and down the halls who was featured on national television.
It was most definitely not for the faint of heart, but Paul liked it and it passed the time, as well as paid the bills, until he could get into vet school. Not to mention the romance he struck up with Kelly, a trauma surgery resident who is now an attending. Paul proposed in front of the whole ER one morning on the way out of work at the end of a shift. Of course she said yes. Soon to be his wife Kelly and Paul are deeply in love. Will this be the book for them to get married? There's a very good likelihood.
Paul’s grandfather, pap, comes to stay with them and is instantly a favorite of Abbie, Paul and Kelly’s first daughter. She follows him everywhere and vies for his attention constantly.
All of the trauma stories are true, but the names of patients were changed to protect the innocent and insane.
For clarification Book 1 is the beginning of the ER traumas and the relationship between Paul and Kelly. Book 3 Paul is shot, while hunting, and has a problem with pain. Could it just be liking the pain pills a little too much and becomes ‘hooked’ on them, or something much more serious. Did the fracture to his shoulder heal properly. You’ll find out if this ends his career as a nurse and puts his aspirations to be a veterinarian at serious risk. It could be an injury to his, brachial plexus, effecting the movement of his arm and severely limiting his ability to do surgery. Their twins are born and one needs immediate surgery to save its life. Does she survive or is the unimaginable loss of a child another thing for Julie and Paul to handle. It’s all in the hands of the surgeons and a greater being to carry her through the surgery.
The shift provided the adrenaline he so thrived on. When the sun went down the amount and severity of the trauma patients that presented to the ER both increased. It may have been a rough shift that many avoided, but Paul seemed to do better as the stress and traumas increased. Patients ranging from gunshot wounds to the utterly psychotic presented themselves in many times rare form to the doors of the ER. Whether that is by ambulance or in the back of a pickup truck they came by the droves some nights. If it were true when the full moon rose the weirder the traumas got, especially on Fridays.
Many of the most interesting nights were spent triaging patients that were ambulatory in their decision to be treated in the ER. Paul wasn’t ever a fan of psychiatry rotations in school or at work, but he garnered many valuable lessons in studying the people that were separated from him in the waiting room by just the walls of the triage desk. There was the transvestite that would throw himself in front of vehicles and ambulances acting out seizure like activity. As well as the patient who was left alone for a weekend by his family and during that time decided to blow the front of his skull off while remaining seated on the couch and found, by his family, watching cartoons. It was an extraordinary job, but one Paul found unfathomably different and on some nights quite entertaining with an Elvis impersonator dancing up and down the halls who was featured on national television.
It was most definitely not for the faint of heart, but Paul liked it and it passed the time, as well as paid the bills, until he could get into vet school. Not to mention the romance he struck up with Kelly, a trauma surgery resident who is now an attending. Paul proposed in front of the whole ER one morning on the way out of work at the end of a shift. Of course she said yes. Soon to be his wife Kelly and Paul are deeply in love. Will this be the book for them to get married? There's a very good likelihood.
Paul’s grandfather, pap, comes to stay with them and is instantly a favorite of Abbie, Paul and Kelly’s first daughter. She follows him everywhere and vies for his attention constantly.
All of the trauma stories are true, but the names of patients were changed to protect the innocent and insane.
For clarification Book 1 is the beginning of the ER traumas and the relationship between Paul and Kelly. Book 3 Paul is shot, while hunting, and has a problem with pain. Could it just be liking the pain pills a little too much and becomes ‘hooked’ on them, or something much more serious. Did the fracture to his shoulder heal properly. You’ll find out if this ends his career as a nurse and puts his aspirations to be a veterinarian at serious risk. It could be an injury to his, brachial plexus, effecting the movement of his arm and severely limiting his ability to do surgery. Their twins are born and one needs immediate surgery to save its life. Does she survive or is the unimaginable loss of a child another thing for Julie and Paul to handle. It’s all in the hands of the surgeons and a greater being to carry her through the surgery.
