Chapter 14
“It was touch and go,” Mick’s surgeon told Wynn and John when he finally appeared in the hospital waiting room. “He’s not out of the woods yet, but all indications are he’ll make it. At the moment he’s in intensive care and will remain there for at least the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours. He was lucky the shooter used was a small caliber gun and close up. The bullet went through his lower chest area, penetrating and damaging the left lung, and exited.”
The surgeon paused, smiling slightly. “I could go into all the medical details but I doubt you want those beyond knowing he came through the surgery as well as can be expected. At this point we’ll be monitoring him for possible infection and draining the chest cavity of accumulated fluids. He’s on a respirator as well, o
