Sea Sick: a Horror Novel
“he asked, attaching the heart-rate monitor.“Yes,” Vicky replied. “Paramedics called t in en route. Apparently the patient had crawled out of some woods and passed out on the side of the road. Someone driving passed found him and called 999.”“Any identification?”Vicky nodded. “Driver’s license. Nigel Moot, age forty-two. He’s on the database; blood type A negative.”“Rare,” muttered Malone, already fast at work. “Get an IV prepared and a blood line.”Two more nurses entered the room, obviou...sly hearing the commotion. Without word they pulled on latex gloves and surrounded the operating table to make themselves available. Vicky came over and set a tray of surgical instruments. She handed a bottle of iodine to one of the other nurses and passed a scalpel to Dr Malone. She’s been doing the job long enough now that she knew what was needed when.One of the nurses pulled down the irrigation hose and begun rinsing out the wound with sterilised water. The blood flushed away, replaced by flooding water. It looked like a puckered, pink mouth, stretching three whole inches across the patient’s torso.Malone used the scalpel to open the wound very slightly, to get a better view of how deep the blade had gone. The heart rate monitor beeped regularly but slowly.“No organ damage. He’s lucky, the blade just missed his liver.” Malone used his fingers to slowly part the wound. A brief spurt of blood overwhelmed the water for a moment. “Can we get some clamps on this?MoreLess
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