Colonial empires in a world ruled by elves

Field surgery

Outside a tent, Drusilla was drinking some coffee as she watched the sunrise.

‘Today will be a good and very productive day. I have to continue teaching my nurses everything I know about medicine.

I still feel uncomfortable that 26 weeks have passed since we came into this world and my nurses have a lot to learn.

In almost half a year they need to learn too many things, I think I could increase the task that they left ... ‘

Drusilla interrupted her words when she could see in the sky the recruit fall from the sky, the poor attempt to open the parachute.

But while he tried, he kept falling, so when he opened the parachute he was close to touching the ground.

Fortunately, when he fell to the ground, he did so without too much force to kill him, but he was severely wounded as his screams could be heard throughout the camp.

Without wasting time, Drusilla took her medical kit and ran to the military parking lot where, seeing no one, it was very early.

She took the keys of an ambulance from a wooden panel. When she opened the ambulance door, she threw the first aid kit on the passenger seat and got into the car.

Without wasting time and using a hair tie, she tied her hair and later started the ambulance engine.

Turning the crank that activated the noise of the ambulance, she moved the ambulance towards the scene of the accident.

The noise of the ambulance woke up some soldiers and nurses because they did not know what was happening.

As they emerged from their tents, they realized that an ambulance was speeding towards a part of the field.

This caught the attention of some ambulance drivers, as they knew there must have been an accident, so they got ready to help.

Drusilla, who was driving at full speed, always kept her gaze facing the dirt road, to be able to maneuver if there was an obstacle.

After some time, she came to a huge fire where she could see a torn parachute on the ground like the body of a recruit.

This set off the alarms in Drusilla’s head as she did not want to be late to rescue the recruit.

When she arrived at the accident area, she took her medicine cabinet and looked in horror at the recruit, who had both femurs of his feet broken and exposed.

She knew she had to act fast as the blood on the ground showed that he had some serious injury.

Upon reaching one side of the body of the recruit, she realized that he had lost consciousness but was still alive.

So the first thing he did was place a tourniquet around his legs to reduce the bleeding, after which she started with his right foot, which seemed to have a perforated artery.

Taking a scalpel, she broke his pants and looked at the severity of the wound, so she knew that she had to operate in an emergency.

Grabbing a bottle of alcohol from the medicine cabinet, she cleaned the upper part of the recruit’s leg, as the work area was clean.

Drusilla put on gloves and a mask to later take the scalpel and make a deep cut in the leg.

When the leg was cut, she used her hands to separate the meat and be able to see where the bone had broken and the artery was perforated.

It did not take long to find the site of the broken femur, so with the help of tweezers, she removed the pieces of bone in the meat.

When she removed one of them, she realized that one piece of bone had perforated an artery. That was why he was losing too much blood.

Removing the piece of bone, she took her special needle and some thread to sew the artery, as best she could to prevent it from reopening.

The process was slow and took all of Drusilla’s concentration, but she was able to completely close the wound in the artery.

Checking more thoroughly, she realized that there were other remains of bones, so she cleaned them and decided to accommodate the bone.

For that, she used her hands to accommodate the broken femur. The process was so painful that the recruit screamed unconsciously.

“You’ll be fine boy, you just have to hold on, just fix the bone and I can sew the wound.”

From the medicine cabinet, Drusilla took a kind of a metal stick that was made of titanium and that was in a plastic sheath.

Which she opened to reveal a bone fixator. After placing it in the femur, she took from the medicine cabinet a drill and two titanium screws that were in plastic bags.

Placing alcohol on the tip of the drill to disinfect it from any kind of bacteria, she drilled the bone in two areas to later place the titanium screws on the bone fixator.

When she’s done doing that and having the femur completely immobilized, she uses alcohol to clean all the blood.

She knew that the recruit was feeling a lot of pain as he was moaning in pain unconsciously, but Drusilla, as an experienced doctor, ignored him.

Because she knew that if she did not clean, some part of the leg could become infected and that would cause gangrene, which could cost the life or the leg of the recruit.

When she was finished, she sewed the cut of the scalpel and the hole that had left the exposed femur.

When she finished, she could hear the noises of other ambulances, which quickly arrived where she was.

Some doctors and nurses came down and were surprised by what Drusilla had done.

Drusilla simply smiled “I just had surgery in the field to close an artery and fix a broken femur from him, using the new titanium tools.

I think you can relieve me to take him to a hospital to work on his left leg. “

Doctors and nurses, with the help of ambulance attendants, carefully placed the recruit on a stretcher and took him away.

For her part, Drusilla, who was tired, lay down on the grass while some nurses cleaned the blood on their tools.

“It is fascinating what you could do in a few minutes Doctor, you may receive a medal for such a brave action.”

Drusilla laughed and sighed “I was fortunate to be at the right time and in the right place to help the recruit effectively.

But what the hell was a recruit doing jumping out of a zeppelin so early? “

The doctor who was sitting next to Drusilla shook his head “I understand you are prohibited from jumping in the morning.

Most likely, it is the typical case of a recruit who wanted to prove something. Thank goodness he was found by the angel from the camp. “

Drusilla was surprised by the nickname they had given her “I guess it’s not a bad nickname, considering that I will never kill.”