First Rainfall of May [MEDICAL SERIES #1]

CHAPTER 50: Supreme Court

TRIVIA: 

Kisses also love Storm the way Travis loves Sabrina. Pero hindi ko na binigyan ng highlight dito sa story. Usually kasi sa mga nababasa ko, kontrabida are built because the leading characters can't love them back. 

I just want to show that you can still love and be good at the same time even if that love isn't reciprocated. Hindi mo kailangang maging kontrabida sa buhay ng ibang tao; because if you do evil things in the name of love, then you just defeat the true meaning of love. 

Love should heal you, not destroy you. 

AAAAAND heads up! This chapter is written in form of series of flashback so please read carefully para hindi kayo malito. If you're my old reader, ganito ginawa ko sa last chapter ng When I Was Your Man.

Trigger Warning: suicide content

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STORM

Present day

"SPECIMEN out po," hayag ko pagkatapos kong matanggal ang appendix ng pasyenteng inooperahan ko.

"Very good," sagot ni Doc Christine, my senior. "Mukhang may magpapa-ice cream, ah!"

Everyone in the OR screamed and I just smiled a little.

I am now a first year resident doctor in Surgery and this is my first operation na ako ang main surgeon at may isang intern na assist. However, there's a senior resident who guided me along the operation.

"Alam mo ba dokie kung sino ang appendectomy record holder natin dito sa Grandecilla Medical Center?" tanong ng rotating nurse habang nagclo-closing na kami.

"Sino po?" I asked while suturing together the transversalis fascia of the abdominal wall of the patient.

"Ang may-ari nitong hospital, si Doc Hildegarde Grandecilla." This hospital is one of the oldest, mas matanda pa sa hospital nina Sabrina. Limang henerasyon na ng Grandecilla ang namuno dito.

"He was 70 years old back then when he performed that record-breaking appendectomy," saad ni Doc Christine. "He finished appendectomy sa loob lang ng walong minuto."

Napatingin ako sa kanya. "Eight minutes po?" gulat kong tanong.

"Focus, Storm. Eyes on the field."

"Sorry, Doc." I tied a knot on the suture and my intern cut it. Then I proceed to the next layer of the abdomen from inside, the internal oblique muscle.

"Within that eight minutes he finished everything: opening, cutting and removal of appendix, closing. Voila!"

Grabe! Lods!

"O sige na, Storm. Scrub out na ko. Kaya mo na 'yan."

"Sige po, Doc. Thank you po."

We finished closing the patient's abdomen.

"Doc, ako na lang po magdre-dressing," saad ng intern.

"Hindi sige, ako na."

"Okay lang po, Doc. Ako na po," nakangiti niyang sambit.

"Okay. Thank you. Pagkatapos niyan, dalhin mo na 'yang specimen sa laboratory ha? You know the punishment kapag naiwala mo ang specimen."

"Yes po, doc. Thank you po, doc. Noted po, doc." Then he started dressing the surgical site of the patient.