Everything about the surgery should have been textbook.
The patient had been in good health save for the surgery that had been required. So when the heart gave out, everyone had been surprised, and everyone had moved quickly to deal with the complication. It hadn't been enough. Lydia was holding the man's heart between her hands, trying to massage it, stimulate it into beating again.
Somehow, before it happened, she just seemed to know, in some fundamental way she cannot explain. The review had cleared her, she'd done everything she was supposed to do, and now all that's left is to deal with her first loss on an operating table. She knew it was inevitable, and yet nothing could truly prepare her.
She sits in a tight huddle in the stairwell, hands pressed to her mouth to keep her sobs from being heard. She doesn't want anyone seeing her cry.
Grey's the 3rd - This Shit Never Gets Old...Until It Does
The patient had been in good health save for the surgery that had been required. So when the heart gave out, everyone had been surprised, and everyone had moved quickly to deal with the complication. It hadn't been enough. Lydia was holding the man's heart between her hands, trying to massage it, stimulate it into beating again.
Somehow, before it happened, she just seemed to know, in some fundamental way she cannot explain. The review had cleared her, she'd done everything she was supposed to do, and now all that's left is to deal with her first loss on an operating table. She knew it was inevitable, and yet nothing could truly prepare her.
She sits in a tight huddle in the stairwell, hands pressed to her mouth to keep her sobs from being heard. She doesn't want anyone seeing her cry.