Operation

    "Leela, I've had a really nice time," Kurt said, taking another sip of coffee.
    "Same here, Kurt. I mean, Dr. Kurt," she said with a wink.
    "People think I'm automatically a genius just because of the Dr. in my name.  Surgeons aren't smart, we're just knife obsessed." Leela laughed.
     "I'll pay for the coffee, since you've paid for the other dates." she took out her wallet.
     "I won't fight. But, lets take a walk." 
     "Okay."
  
    They stepped out into the cool winter's evening, arms linked. Snow fell and clung to their eyelashes.
     "Wow, I love sn-" Leela coughed into her mitten. And again.
     "Leela, are you okay?"
     "I'm-"-cough-"fine. Just a cold." She coughed again, and her mitten was speckled with blood. She stared at it in horror.
     "Leela?"
     "..." Leela fell to the ground.

    ~*~

   "Get her to the OR!" Kurt's boss snapped.
    "I c-can't operate on her!" Kurt stammered.
   "I don't give a s**t on whether or not she's your girlfriend. Your our best surgeon, act like it!"
    "Yes sir."
    "Adel, you assist."
    "Okay."
 

    "Patient is a 23 year old female, 120 pounds. We suspect a tumor in her right lung. Ready, Doctor?" Adel looked up from his clipboard. Kurt gulped.
    "Ready."
    "Open her up."
    "Scalpel."
    "Use the ultrasound to search for the tumor."
    "Tumor detected."
    "Use the laser to bring it to the surface."
    "It's surfacing."
    "Drain the chlorophyll from the tumor."
    "Scalpel."
    "Extract the tumor..."
    "Smaller tumors forming."
    "Use the laser to burn them off."
    "Burning..."
    "Hemorrhaging forming around the tumors."
    "Drain."
    "More tumors forming..."
    "Shut up, Adel. Sutures."
    "Here."
    "Suturing up the lacerations."
    "Doctor! The tumors!"
    "Laser."
    "Smaller tumors fading. But that big one."
    "S**t."
    "Bigger tumors forming in her lung. Use the ultrasound."
    "They're spreading."
    "Keep removing."
    "Drain."
    "Two down.
    "Adel, they're spreading to her heart."
   "Calm. Keep removing. Work faster."
   "Antibiotic gel."
   "They keep forming..."
   "What the-"
    "Patient going into cardiac arrest."
   "Defibrillator."
   "Clear."
   "We have a pulse."
   "Keep removing tumors, Doctor."
   "All of them are gone, but-"
   "Still unstable."
   "More tumors?"
    "Ultrasound."
    "More are found in her heart."
    "Laser."
    "Burn."
     "Well, that's it.
    "Patient is going into cardiac arrest again."
    "Defibrillator!"
    "CLEAR!"
    "No pulse." Please Leela, don't die.
    "One more time?"
    "Clear."
    "Nothing."
    "Clear..."
    "Doctor, she's gone."
    "No...."
         I knew that one sound will forever echoe in my mind.
    Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.....

Author's Note

I can practically see the confusion on your faces. Lets do a little vocab!

Sutures-stitches
Hemorrhaging- bleeding
ultrasound- used to detect tumors
Cardiac arrest- think heart attack
Defibrillator- a device used to end cardiac arrests. You've seen them, they look like two irons, and the guy rubs them together, yells CLEAR, the kinda electricutes the heart.

Haha. I know doctor terms, from playing Trauma Center! Whoot! I know it's confusing, though.

Reviews

[roarke]

ever play the game "Operation?" you left out a couple of Bzzzzzt's.

the spontaneously forming tumors here is the hook. Why? What didn't we know about Leela? You're keeping something from your readers. lol.

I don't think Michael Crichton has anything to worry about here. hahahaa

[Bella-Marie]

That was great, although there are CHLOROPLASTS in lungs? I thought they were a chemical that helped with photosynthesis...
Anyway, yes, I loved this story because I adore medical stuff and this was right up my alley. And it was very well-written.

[Essy]

i think the beeeeeeeeeeep thing at the end is sorta redundant, considering that they already said shes gone. i also think that a little more introduction would be nice, but im also sorta confused about the tumors. are they just growing and multiplying THAT rapidly? is this supposed to make medical sense, because that wouldnt. besides those things, i like it.