VITHAT NIGHT, ALARMS went off.
I jumped from my cot in the administration room and reached for a non-existent gun in a missing holster. Habit.
Lights were strobing and it took me minutes to figure out where the stupid off-switch was. I turned the lights to "On-Full" and saw the problem.
Our only remaining maintenance tech was out cold on the floor. I felt his head - fever. And foam coming out of his mouth.
Contagion.
So I did what I needed to do. I pulled him up in a fireman's carry and went right through all the double doors I needed to so we were both in with Cathy, the nurses, and the other quarantined patients.
Cathy looked up and rushed toward me. Sue was already motioning me to an empty bed near the doors I'd just barged in through.
They both went to work taking his vitals and
