12 May, Military base hospital, City K

Being wheeled into the hospital on a gurney Lexi could hear Matthew and Chester arguing as she awoke from the sedation for the flight.?As she went through a set of doors, she heard Chester say "Let me through."

Matthew then responded "Grow up.?You know what treatment she needs.?And do not forget this is a military hospital.?You want to cause a scene and I will have you removed.."

"You and who..?"

"Grow up Chester," came Phillip's voice interrupting him.?"It is a military base and Mister General there, if you really want an answer will simple get a few soldiers to take you away and have you banned."

"He would not dare."

"Chester, stop it.?I love you, but this is still childish behaviour.?You know, if the two of you keep going, I will talk to Lexi myself and have her ask the medical staff to ban both of you."

The doors swung firmly shut and Lexi could not hear what was going on.?Hearing the two of them before they sedated her on the flight made her remember what happened Thursday night.?The truth about Dominic's parentage had come out.?Matthew was furious at her, but he did not seem to realise that her willingness to sacrifice herself made sure that they had their little boy, her angel, her life.?Everything she had done was for him, from surviving the hell that was Richard, to leaving to recover from that, developing a career, and returning for him.

It was not making sense about marrying Matthew.?Why??Did she feel guilty on his return to at least let him into their son's life as his primary male figure or was there some other reason??She needed to know, because trying to figure out what to do was hard enough but that gap was killing her.

A voice said "Let us move Madam Rong carefully to the bed.?Remember she has a broken arm and leg.?Ready, Three, Two, one, Lift."?Lexi felt herself being carefully lifted and placed down on another bed.

As she opened her eyes, she saw a Doctor in her line of sight.?Something made him seem familiar, and she saw him signal to the medical staff around before they seemed to melt away.

"Madam Rong, I have spoken to Colonel Zhang and am aware of your situation, and that she had not told you too much.?I am Major Yu, surgeon.?And yes, you have met me before.?Not due to your hospitalisation, but your husband's.?If you are recognising people, even if you cannot recall names, that is a good sign that you will recover your memories.?Do not push yourself to remember everything it will happen in good time."

"But I need to remember things."

"You will.?I have treated enough soldiers on deployments who suffer amnesia from head injuries to know trying to force yourself to remember things is worse than letting things come back to you.?While loosing those memories would be worrying, but your reaction when you focused on me tells me that they will come back.?I will get one of the nurses to take some observations and will come back to talk to you about your treatment."

With that he quickly moved outside the curtain and Lexi could hear mumbled voices and saw a nurse move in, taking her blood pressure, temperature, measuring her pulse and oxygen saturations, without a word before heading out again.

As the nurse left, Doctor Yu returned and pulling a chair to the bedside said "Those observations were what I would have hoped for.?Now, I want to talk to you about what we are going to do.?I will have a further series of X-Rays and other scans taken, just to reconfirm everything that the originals taken in City F showed.?Clean breaks in your arm and leg, and no internal injuries or bleeding.?Assuming that is confirmed, we will be taking you in for surgery once another specialist arrives."

"Surgery, but I though you said clean breaks and no other injuries?"

"Not totally true.?The blast you were in resulted in you suffering many skin lacerations, some small but others large.?As it was a couple of hours from the blast to when you were located the wounds were cleaned as best as could be done in City F, but there is dirt and debris that they could not easily get out.?We need to thoroughly clean those wounds to prevent infection.?Additionally, some of the lacerations requiring stitching are so close together that it is a delicate specialist task to properly stitch them.?That requires a plastic surgeon, not a speciality for military doctors.?But due to government agreements with private hospitals the head of plastic surgery at the Gu Group Hospitals here has agreed to come in and perform the surgery."

Sensing that there was something unsaid in the calm but paradoxically tense words from Dr Yu, Lexi asked "There is something you are not telling me?"

"Madam Rong It comes back to the breaks.?We must wait until the plastic surgeon arrives and we formulate a plan on your overall treatment.?If we were just looking at the broken bones, we would simply have casts on your arm and leg and you would be out of here, yes using a wheelchair, but home with that adorable son of yours.?Being back in normality, will do the most for your recovery.?The plastic surgeon once he has reviewed you, due to the nature and extent of your skin lacerations, may determine casts are not possible for their recovery.?My recommendation, as an orthopaedic surgeon is that if that is his recommendation, we follow it."

"But in terms of treatment for the breaks?"

"Madam Rong, neither option will be palatable.?We simply confine you here in the hospital until your broken bones heal.?That will likely be six to eight weeks of being immobile in bed.?The other option is overkill and not normally clinically warranted but possible as you already must have surgery is to insert a plate and screws in.?That, subject to your post-surgery recovery would have you home in a wheelchair within a fortnight, having outpatient physiotherapy."

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