Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 61

4 years ago

Broken and bruised - Season 1 - Episode 61

Ofelia and her sister are at home doing nothing after coming from the garden, they have just arrived home and thinking of what to cook as they also discuss the Melanie and Tobi relationship

” I’m very sure Tobi loves our daughter but I’m also sure his family will not allow this relationship to continue” Ofelia tells Jessica
“And why would you think that would be the case”

“It’s the case Jessica, I’m so worried someone will tell his family about Mel’s past and that’s not something good”
“What past are you even talking about, is it the fact that she almost married that wrong element or the fact that she’s pregnant”
“Both my sister, what if they get to know that the baby she’s carrying is not Tobi’s”
“And who’s going to tell them about it….stop this negative thinking but rather convince Melanie to accept moving into the house he offered us because when she gives birth, this small house will not be enough”
“Jessy, I will not meddle because that’s Mel’s decision to make not ours, I will not ask her to do something she’s not in agreement to” her phone starts to ring and she picks it

“Hello…….what?… what happened and where is she……….OK we’re coming” she gets up but stops to tell her sister
“We have to get to pioneer”
“Pioneer…. which pioneer, what’s there”
“Hospital…. Mel had an accident and Tobi is driving her over there”

“Jesus what happened…. what accident”
“I don’t know…. let’s get ready and go”…………

Tobi and Jane arrive at the hospital and find the medics were already out waiting for them, be had called them on their way so they never really wasted time to get her out of the car and wheel her in, Tobi and Jane who is still barefoot follow inside but they were stopped and asked to wait at the reception area, Tobi is just a shadow of himself just pacing up and down

” Calm down Tobi…. she’s already in safe hands and she shall be alright ”
“How can you say that Jane, didn’t you see her state…. I don’t want to loose her or my baby…. what really happened Mel, your shoes couldn’t have been the reason why you stripped and fell, did you faint or what”
“Come….sit down with me and I explain” Jane leads him to the chair

“I’m sure she didn’t just faint because I heard someone scream from my office, I came out immediately and asked the guys with offices around but non of them said they heard anything…. I then went to the reception area where I found Janet looking so busy, I asked if she heard any one scream but she too said she didn’t so that’s when I saw her bag on the couch in the reception area, I knew she had not left the building so I had only one place to check and that’s the rest room” he’s so hurt

“You mean those guys all claimed they never heard her Voice”

“Non of them but that’s not important, let’s just focus on the most important thing that she’s here and being attended to by the Doctor” ……the Doctor comes out asking Tobi to come with him to his office, he follows without wasting any time

“Mac how is she….how is my wife…tell me she’s fine”

“Calm down brother, Melanie experienced contraction and had a placental abruption”
“What the hell is even that…is it something serious”

“Yes I won’t lie to you, it’s a serious condition in which the placenta starts to come away from inside of the womb wall, it usually causes stomach pain, sometimes there is no blood but in Mel’s case there was blood, and I mean plenty of it”

“Oh my God”
“Like I said the placenta has detached from the wall of the uterus either partly or totally… she’s bleeding profusely and I’m afraid the bleeding may interfere with the baby’s supply of oxygen and nutrients….. without prompt medical treatment, a severe case of placental abruption can have dire consequence for the mother and the unborn child”

“That serious”
“Yes….including death it can be harmful both to the both of them because there was a direct trauma to her abdomen which led to loss of amniotic fluid…..she must have landed down so hard…”

“Is there really nothing you can do to keep the baby….I mean up to it’s due date”
“I could if the bleeding had stopped but right now there is nothing I can do, she’s loosing too much blood and she also seems to have high blood pressure, if left unattended to, the complications include decreased oxygen to the baby which can lead to brain damage, maternal blood loss leading to shock…. the bleeding in Melanie can not be controlled because we have failed to so brother that leaves us only with one option”

“Which is….”
“We need to deliver this baby early… I mean today”

“But is it not risky”
“I can’t tell you it is because I would be lying but if the bleeding doesn’t stop she might not make it alive out of this”……. Tobi remains speechless so unable to even move, his tears do the talking…..