Alison Roberts - The Doctor's Unexpected Proposal

‘She was feeling a lot better. Blood pressure was well up and her temperature was coming down. It won’t last long, though. She’s in shock and if it’s septic, she’s going to get a whole lot worse.’

‘It’s septic all right.’ With his usual ability to surprise, Charles had glided silently into the department. He held a sheaf of laboratory printouts in one hand. ‘White cell count is through the roof.’

Jill was following Charles. She stared at her colleagues. ‘What’s going on?’

‘Megan’s done a runner,’ Mike said succinctly.

‘I left her alone for a minute,’ Emily confessed miserably. ‘To get her a bedpan. This is all my fault.’

‘But why would she have run?’ Charles looked puzzled. ‘Is she delirious?’

‘There’s a lot going on.’ Emily managed to sound a lot calmer than she felt. ‘My pelvic exam revealed that Megan’s given birth rather recently. She has a perineal tear that’s just starting to heal.’

‘She was at the Gunyamurra rodeo,’ Mike added. ‘We think she might be Lucky’s mother.’

Charles took the implications on board instantly. ‘The von Willebrand’s?’ he queried. ‘Could hypovolaemia be contributing to the level of shock she’s in?’

‘I hadn’t thought of that.’ Emily groaned, and tried to marshal her thoughts. Searching for Lucky’s parents had been given medical as well as social urgency due to the inherited bleeding disorder the baby had. Like haemophilia, von Willebrand’s could cause major problems if unrecognised and not treated. ‘No, I don’t think so,’ she told Charles. ‘That tear is healing well and I didn’t notice anything unusual about bleeding from the puncture sites when we took those blood samples. Did you, Mike?’

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