Mountain by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2024-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Day 6 Morning

Amelia woke up and yawned, feeling a more normal lassitude in her body that she hadn’t felt in a while. Every time she had come here to the military base over the last three months or so, it had been a physical endurance test, mostly because she did it to herself, overdoing it out in the Arctic tundra, knowing that her time was running out and that she wouldn’t get all the data that she wanted this time. It was all about making hay, while there was hay to make.

Now, however, winding up in the medical clinic at the military base was not how she’d expected this last trip of hers to end up. Yet she was grateful for the peace and the sense of recovery she felt. Anything that could make her life a little easier right now was a godsend, and she would take it quite happily.

She shifted gently and reached for the water at her side. Sydney sat at her desk as always, a reliable guardian angel, someone Amelia would have to thank in some special way when this was all over.

As if hearing her muted thoughts, Sydney looked up at her patient and smiled. “Hey. How are you feeling?”

“I feel decent,” Amelia said, with half a smile, “although I’m not sure decent is quite the right word.”

“No, but as long as you’re on the mend, starting to improve, we’ll take it,” the doc replied, as she came over and picked up the blood pressure cuff. Quickly she did a quick round, checking Amelia’s vitals and her wounds.

“Surely I’m getting better, and I don’t need all that anymore.”

“You’ll always need that because it’s one of tools that we have to confirm that your improvement is steadfast and solid,” Sydney explained. “Honest to God, I don’t ever want to see somebody else as close to death as you were and not have any blood to give them.”

“Was it that bad?”

“It’s one thing to be in a full medical facility, but, when I’m out here in the frozen tundra, it’s not possible,” she shared. “The triage decisions out here are the worst of the worst. It’s like trying to make a decision whether you’ll give CPR to somebody—when you’re alone with your patient out in the middle of nowhere, and nobody can reach you or even knows to reach you within an hour or less. As medical professionals, we can’t do CPR forever, and we must decide whether we’ll even try.” Sydney gave a sad smile. “Once you make those kinds of life-and-death decisions”—she shook her head—“everything else in the world becomes something you don’t know any longer.”

“That sounds terrible,” Amelia muttered in agreement.

“It is, and it can be … hard. Life is precious and fills us with joy, and it’s one of those things you should enjoy fully, if you get the opportunity to do so,” Sydney noted. “However, it can also cause all kinds of headaches and pain. So how to go about living it and making the decisions we all must make isn’t always easy, no matter how you look at it.

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