Grassland

Lily walked down the desolate halls of the Hospital. Nurse Red heart quickly made her way to lily's side.

"Lily dear?" She said softly. "your needed in operating room three. There is a patient undergoing open heart surgery. I know you could do it all by yourself because of your medical degrees but unfortunately your in a job where you only get to help the Doctor. So I suppose I will let you get to the operating room so you can help." Red Heart smiles lightly as she then turns to walk away. Lily did not respond to Red Heart. she only proceeded by going where instructed. Lily did have the degrees to be able to handle any medical situation they threw at her. On the other hoof she was only able to apply for a nursing job. She wish she was a doctor even if Mare doctors were few and far between. Lily made it to the operating room her irises shrunk when she saw whom was on the table. It was Purple heart the sheriff she could have sworn choked on his own blood three years ago. Lily froze in her tracks when she saw the familiar stallion. She was in such a daze that she couldn't hear the doctor yelling at her to focus.

"Grassland, Lily you need...to focus~!" The doctor sad as he was now face to face with lily. Her focus could no longer be on the stallion who was laying on the surgical table.

"S-sorry sir.... It's just I know this guy." Lily said as she got up to the table. She looked down at the stallion who was paralyzed by the medicine they had given him.  Purple Heart had an epidural injection into his spine so he could not feel anything below his neck. But he could sense surgeons pushing and pulling inside his chest cavity and hear them talking about the operation's progress. This type of surgery allows doctors to monitor the patient's brain, as there is a risk that small fragments can break off inside the arteries and flow up to the brain, causing a stroke. The doctors replaced a defective heart valve, Purple Heart  was able to speak to the anesthetist. He was wide awake. This kind of surgery is very real and is a scientific advantage if the patient agrees to have it done. Less likely for injury to occur when the patient is wide awake. Even though Purple heart could not see due to the object covering his face, Lily was deathly afraid one of the doctors might accidentally knock it away. Maybe if that happened Purple would die from shock. Knowing Lily and her luck that was unlikely. Despite all of this she had no choice but to do what she needed to do to help the doctors.

During an open heart bypass surgery, access to the heart is necessary and hence the chest is made open and the ribs are spread apart. To maintain the circulation of blood and the breathing activity a heart-lung machine is used.  So the room was really loud with all the talking an machinery. Lily was trying her best to keep her mind off who she was helping. She had to keep her sanity especially since she hadn't gotten the chance to snatch her new medication. As she was helping the doctors she was drowning out all sound but Purple talking to  the surgeons. The success rate for an open heart bypass surgery is around 98%. As with other surgeries there are also complications associated with an open heart bypass surgery. So those numbers where echoing in her brain as she was in the room. Purple had a 98% chance of living. Lily kept her  mind on other things the best she could. Though her mind somehow kept her trailing back to the facts on this surgery and the stallion on the table. The surgery took several hours but eventually Purple made it through the whole surgery. Lily was growing more and more uneasy. She couldn't stop looking at the fabric covering the stallions face.

Monitoring the patient after a bypass heart is usually done for twenty four hours. The BP and the heart rate are monitored closely after a bypass heart recovery surgery. After a bypass heart recovery surgery the patient may suffer from constipation, muscle pain and swelling from the area in which the vein was removed for the surgery. Lily was the unfortunate Mare who was gonna be watching Him for twenty four hours. This was bad in two ways, number one being she had to watch over the stallion she thought she had killed three years ago. Two she was going to miss Orchard birthday. Lily felt absolutely horrible after all she had spent all morning trying to explain to her hubby that he couldn't miss it and how he had to be there. This time it looked like she was going to miss. She was blind enough to accidentally agree to watching him while she was in that operating room. She was blind enough and out of her mind enough  to say yes. Lily hardly noticed her own tears running down her cheeks. as she sat next to the stallions bedside in intensive care. She hated this, why had she been so stupid. Lily looked at the guy who still had the cloth over his face. She wasn't allowed to remove it until he wasn't paralyzed anymore.

"If the patient is having the bypass heart surgery for the first time then the risks are lesser than the patient who is going for the second or third time. Family history of the patient is also analyzed before a bypass heart recovery surgery. Families which have history of cardiac problems are at higher risk after a bypass heart recovery surgery." Lily said to herself. "I need to find out his name so I can forge his medical files and find out his chance of survival after all of the surgery." she placed her right hoof under her own chin as she thought. "If I find them out then I can decide what to do with him." Lily thought some more. How was she going to find them when she had to monitor the stallion for twenty four hours? Lily fluttered her wings as she was thinking. The stallion suddenly moved his own arm as an indication he was not paralyzed anymore.  Lily quickly put on her medical mask as she gasped out loud. she hoped he wouldn't recognize her. she quickly tucked her hair back so less of it was showing. She went over and removed the fabric covering his face. The stallion looked right at her for about three seconds.

"I could use a glass of water." The stallion coughed as he had a dry throat.

"s-sorry sir but you have IVS and I am not authorized to get you a glass of water." she says as she was getting nervous as her eyes kept glancing at a nearby needle. She was debating on killing him now. On the other hoof she decided it was a better idea to stop looking at him. She didn't want to give him more of a chance to recognize her. Purple heart had his ears pinned back and a confused expression on his face.

"do I know you?" He suddenly asked as lily was just about to head out the door to go get his files plus some medication he needed. Lily's cringed at the sound of the question.

"N-no sir your r-recovering from your medication you must be seeing things." she stutters as she exits the room. Lily closed the door behind her and she felt like throwing a temper tantrum but she did not. Instead she walked over to nurse Red Hearts desk. "Oh miss lovely Red Heart could you watch my patient while I do some very essential things for him. He needs certain medication and I need certain medical files to understand his condition." she talks in a cute and cuddly like baby voice. Of course Nurse Red Heart couldn't help but feel flattered and blush.

"Of course I could h-help you miss Grassland. On the other hoof do you have authorization to obtain his files?" She asks as she does her job.

"Would I be standing here telling you this if I didn't?" Lily says in a snappy attitude. "so please watch after him." she smiles as she crosses her hooves on top of her desk.

"sorry L-lily I didn't mean to upset you. I will get right on it." Red Heart smiles She did do what she had promised Lily. She got right up and did as she was told. She watched over the patient. Lily on the other hoof quickly got a  packet of pink cool aid from Red Hearts desk along with her access pass card. Lily knew she would be able to dye her hair with this product. The downside she would have to wait three months for it go away or it may accidentally be permanent. She just hoped maybe she would look good in pink hair. Lily quickly got to the bathroom and started on her cool aid dyeing. She started to wash her hair and dye it. When she was done she had bright pink Hair. She looked at her hind courters.

"fuck damn it why must I have so much tail." she frowned at the thought of dyeing it. "Well this is going to be interesting." Lily struggled for ten minutes getting her tail done. When she was done she looked actually a lot different. She almost didn't recognize herself. "This was probably my most drastic cover up ever." she slammed her head on the hard percaline sink. She thought to herself and just hoped maybe she could find a way to make up for what she was missing right now. She couldn't believe she was gonna be the one to let orchard down. She felt like slamming her head harder against the sink but refrained from actually doing it. The last thing she needed was a crack in her skull. "I just need those files. Then this whole thing can be over with." Lily said to herself as she looked in the mirror. "HE failed your Test now he has to pay." She groaned and rolled her eyes as she exited the bathroom. She looked at no pony as she exited, she just went right for the file room where she could find the files. she felt her nervousness rise as she was now in the room she had no authorization to be in. She shuffled around and eventually found the files she needed. She looked around wrapped her wing around the files, she exited the room and  made her way back to where she was suppose to be. She kept glancing at the clocks wishing she could be there for orchard but she knew by now it was to late. Lily shook her head in disappointment for herself. She walked into the patients room and walked past Nurse Red Heart who didn't recognize her immediately.

"Mam are you here to take care of my business.?" Red heart raised a brow.

"It's me lily I just quickly dyed my hair." Lily stated as she looked at the man who was being cared for by Red Heart. She felt rage running through her body. She wanted this stallion dead.