Ross took me down to the A & E at Prince Court Medical Center and I saw a doctor who prescribed antibiotics, antihistamines to take away the itchiness, antispetic cream to apply on the skin and pain killers. We got back home in time to catch the start of the AFL Grand Final.
Ross had invited Brian over to watch too so we gave him a call and he said he was having breakfast with Sonja and Emma after they had walked FRIM and he would come over when he got back. So Ross and I continued to watch the grand final and I even managed to find Australian party pies for half time.
The game finished and we were just hanging out when the intercom buzzer rang. We assumed it was Brian but we were suprised to hear Emma on the other end saying that it was kind of an emergency and could she come up.
All sorts of things ran through our heads but when Emma came off the lift and said that her dad had been shot it was the last thing that we expected. It took Ross and I a few seconds to realise that she was serious and to pull ourselves together to work out what she needed us to do.
We jumped in the car and headed back to Plaza Mont Kiara where they had been having breakfast. Apparently, as they had been walking back to their car, they saw an old lady being mugged by a guy wearing a bike helmet who was trying to steal her bag and really hurting her in the process. Brian ran over and pulled the guy off the old lady and as he ran away, Brian chased him down and started beating him. Before they new it, the robber had pulled a gun on Brian and had let off one shot into the air before aiming at Brian's chest and pulling a second time. After the robber had jumped on his bike and fled, Sonja had compressed the entry sight to try and contain the bleeding while Emma ran upstairs to get help at Starbucks. She managed to run into two Australian paramedics who had an office in the tower above the carpark and so after assessing Brian's condition, they ran upstairs and grabbed their equipment and managed to administer oxygen and fluids to Brian while he still laid in the carpark. They also had their own ambulance which they called and after 30 minutes since the time he was shot, Brian was taken to the University Hospital where the top cardiothoracic surgeon had been summoned and was there waiting for Brian.
With Emma, we managed to pick up Sonja's valuables and their car before heading to the hospital to meet up with Sonja and find out how Brian was. They had him waiting on a gurney on the cardiothoracic ward while they waited for an operating theatre to become available. Ross and I went in with Sonja and Emma to see Brian who was still conscious but in a lot of pain. He even joked with us about missing the football.
From there, Ross took Emma to the school to pick up Maddie and bring her back to the hospital and I stayed with Sonja while we worked out what was going on and what to do. The girls came back with Ross but by this time Brian had already gone into surgery and would be in there for a while. Ross took the girls home and again I stayed with Sonja to wait for results from the doctor.
Emma was pretty shaken up by the whole thing which was to be expected but particularly because while she was in the carpark looking after her dad, a person rang her pretending to be the police and asked her lots of details including her personal information such as her address etc. She soon found out that this person was a reporter pretending to be a policeman and she was scared that someone would track her or her family down.
After about 2 hours of surgery, the doctor called Sonja in and explained that he had fractured 7 ribs and had punctured part of his lung. They were worried about the amount of bleeding but they would keep him in ICU to assess the bleeding and keep Brian on morphine for the pain before doing a thorough cat scan on Monday. Sonja spent a few hours sitting with Brian who was still conscious before we finally decided that it would be best if she went home to her kids. We left about midnight.
I finally got home to see Ross. We hugged each other and broke down after all the drama of the day. Brian was doing ok but still no where near out of the woods yet. It really makes you stop and think about your own life...
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