Maui Time: Mad Dash into Motherhood (The Island Breeze Series Book 3) by Hadashi Kay

Author:Hadashi, Kay [Hadashi, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“Andrea, are you with me all day?” June asked of the anesthesiologist after they had started their first case of the day. June had a spine to fix on an accident victim from several days before as her first case. She had finally convinced the hospital to buy the instrumentation, implants, and important technical equipment she needed to safely do spine surgery. In the end, June knew the hospital would benefit greatly by keeping those patients at their hospital instead of shipping them to a larger hospital on Oahu. It would take only a few months before the equipment more than paid for itself, a business side of June that the hospital was happy to have.

“First call. Here all day, until the sun comes up tomorrow, if need be.”

“I won’t be here that long.”

Her assistant that morning was a retirement age physician who still liked to come in to feel useful. Neurosurgery was new to him, and he needed a lot of teaching, so much that she felt like she was teaching a resident again. By the time she was done with both cases that day, it would’ve been easier to have done them alone, and it had taken hours longer than expected.

It was almost dinnertime by the time she stepped away and pulled off her sterile surgical gown, tossing it in the trash. It didn’t take long before she found a stool for a sit to read the messages she got on her phone during the case.

Just as she was reading a reminder from Divya Gill’s office, her obstetrician, about the appointment the next day, and writing orders for her surgical patient, her phone rang with a call. It was an ER number.

“This is Doctor Kato,” she said.

“This is Mom. I’m in the ER.”

“Why are you here at the hospital?” she asked. “I didn’t call for a ride home yet.”

“There’s bad news, Dear.”

It was one of those ‘oh no’ moments in life. A call from a hospital emergency room with the message that there was bad news could only mean the news was worse than bad. Her blood pressure plummeted and she had to steady herself by holding on to the stainless steel counter in front of her.

“What?” was all she could spit out.

“It’s your dad.”

“What about him?”

“Something happened at home. I had to bring him in.”

Massive panic. Nothing was more important than her parents, sister, nieces, and the baby. Jack was surrounded by security and the best medical help in the world was only steps away from him at any given moment. Everything else paled; job, house, life itself. Even if they bickered occasionally, happiness was found within the core of people orbiting around her, and nowhere else.

She pushed up from where she sat and grabbed her white doctor’s jacket. She hurried to the door, trying to get the jacket around her as she walked. Her vision was narrowing, turning grayscale.

June realized then she’d been pushing her dad too hard to finish the addition on the house, making him work in the tropical heat and humidity.

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