Chapter 1“Code Blue, ICU 6! Code Blue, ICU 6! Code Blue, ICU 6!”
“s**t!” Melissa dropped the supplies she was holding on the Central Supply counter. “That’s my patient. I’ll come back as soon as I can for all this.” The supply room guy looked irritated.
Well, too damn bad if you have to put the stuff back. My patient is dying!
Getting off the elevator, Melissa pulled her hair cover and N95 mask out of her scrubs pocket and hurriedly put them on as she headed for the double doors of the ICU COVID unit. She swiped her ID badge in the badge reader on the wall adjacent to the doors and they swung open, revealing the activity taking place all along the hallway. Melissa maneuvered her way past IV poles and crash carts and nurses’ laptop carts, and finally made it to room 6, where the code tea
