Chapter 482 Everything Will Be Fine
Jonathan was indeed a very skilled surgeon, but he wasn’t a neurosurgeon. Furthermore, over the past few years, he had been doing less surgery due to his age. He didn’t have much experience in such surgeries either, so even if he had fifty percent confidence in the surgery, he wasn’t brave enough to go ahead with it.
After all, the person on the operating bed right now was the mistress of the Gardner family, not to mention the eldest daughter of the Jenkins family. If something bad happened to her, he wouldn’t be able to bear the consequences.
“I’ll do it,” Nicole suddenly announced.
Jonathan turned his head to glance at Nicole. Julia had mentioned Nicole to him several times, and his daughter had always been full of praises for her friend. He had heard of the surgery that Nicole did for Benedict.
The surgery had been quite a complicated one and even if Jonathan was the one operating on Benedict, the former didn’t have the utmost confidence either.
“Are you sure about that?” Jonathan asked her solemnly.
“Yes.” Nicole nodded. However, she couldn’t step forward abruptly right now, so she turned her head to look at Jonathan before asking, “Right now, judging by Mrs. Gardner’s condition, how much longer can she hold out for?”
“Half an hour. We must start removing the clot within half an hour; otherwise, her life will be in danger,” Jonathan replied.
Nicole nodded. She needed time to get ready. “Give me ten minutes and I’ll go get changed. Please help me and make sure that she remains stable for the next ten minutes. I won’t take long.”
Jonathan nodded.
Meanwhile, Nicole rushed out of the operating theater and swiftly ran to the medical room to get changed as she rummaged for equipment that she would need. Just then, she heard a voice ring out by her side all of a sudden.
“Nicole.” Nicole turned around and found Julia standing by her side, but she wasn’t sure how long Julia had been there. The latter didn’t look too well.
“Julia, I’ve got no time to chat. Mrs. Gardener is in a critical condition and I need to head over as soon as I’ve changed.”
Julia had naturally rushed over because she had heard the news. Her mom was the one who’d broken the news to her and mentioned that Anna was involved in a traffic accident with a child.
Obviously, the child was Hayden.
“I’ll come with you. I can be your assistant.” The two of them had a great connection and they worked perfectly in sync with each other.
Julia was about to change into her scrubs when she suddenly caught a whiff of blood. She couldn’t contain the wave of nausea that hit her and she retched, about to empty out her stomach contents.
Nicole knew that Julia was pregnant, so she wouldn’t be able to tolerate the stench of blood. As such, Nicole revealed a resigned smile and said, “Julia, I’ll be fine. Your father and Richard are there in Mrs. Gardner’s operating theater, so everything will be fine. Hayden has gone through a harrowing situation and must be quite frightened, so help me keep an eye on him.”
Julia held a hand over her mouth and she clearly realized that she wasn’t fit to assist with the surgery under her current circumstances, so she no longer said anything.
Nicole didn’t have time to say anything else and after giving the instructions, she turned around and left to enter the operating theater.
Colton wasn’t addicted to smoking, but he occasionally lit a cigarette when he was feeling frustrated. If he didn’t puff on the cigarette, he usually lit one and watched the cigarette burn slowly as he slowly inhaled the slight whiff of smoke. It had been quite some time since he felt so frustrated.
“Colton? Colton! How’s Mom doing?” Wendy ran over in a haste and her eyes were red-rimmed as the tears welled up in her eyes.
Their father was overseas on a business trip at the moment, so it would take him at least half a day to arrive back.
Anna had actually intended to send the driver to fetch Hayden over to the Gardner Residence to spend time together, but she decided to go along because she missed Hayden very much. Unfortunately for them, they encountered a traffic accident.
“She’s in the operating theater at the moment. Nicky’s inside, so everything will be fine.”
Colton noticed that Wendy was close to tears, so he comforted her softly.
Meanwhile, Wendy sniffled and she had been trying hard to suppress her tears on the way here. Right now, she finally saw Colton and she could no longer rein her emotions as she launched herself into Colton’s arms and sobbed loudly.
Colton looked at the girl sobbing in his arms, and he patted her on the shoulders as his heart ached slightly.
Wendy had been born much later than him, so she didn’t have any burdens on her and she had always lived a jolly life since she was born. She had never sobbed so sadly in her life before.
“Calm down, Wendy. Nicky’s with Mom, so don’t worry.” Colton patted Wendy on the back with one hand and stroked her head with the other.
