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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2010 22:14:32 GMT -5
"Is she hurt badly?" Damian asked me as he tried to high-jack the flaming car.
"I think she might have broken her neck, and she's bleeding a lot." It felt bad to say that, but it was the truth> At least she was crying and still breathing. We were headed to Springfield for another show, when suddenly we hit something really hard!
"I'm smelling smoke!" I cried. We ran to the window
"OH MY GOD! OH NO! OH NO!" We had hit what looked like a family SUV and it was bursting in flames.
"OMG FIRE, FIRE!" As if that wasn't enough, the next thing i heard was a huge 'screak' and then a crash and a boom! I guessed it was an 84 car collision.
"OH MY GOD!!!!!" I was so freaked out.
"PAUL GET 911 ON YOUR CELL! RYAN TELL THE BUS DRIVER TO WAIT TILL WE CAN GET THE ACCIDENT CLEARED UP! DAMIAN YOU'RE WITH ME!"
I grabbed Damian by the arm and we ran towards the scene.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2010 19:13:23 GMT -5
"OH MY GOD! NO, NO SWEETHEART IT'S OK! SHHH SHHHH! DAMO HIGH-JACK THE CAR IF YOU CAN!"
Well this was a bad sign believe it or not. There was a baby in the front seat! I guess the mother was feeding her or something like that. It was an approximately two week old baby! Oh God! They were coming to our show in Springfield! Sure enough there were the three tickets
"KEITH THE AMBULANCE CAN'T MAKE IT THROUGH!" Paul called out to us. "Ok!" I called back. I really wanted to hold and comfort the wee kid but I didn't know how but the kid was in hysterics I mean it was screaming so loud that people passing by in their cars had to cover their ears.
no no no ok ok sweetie sh sh shsh I soothed as i tried to pop a pacifier in it's mouth I felt terrible for the kid it was horrified by this turn of events
but then i heard another cracking sound i looked at the floor and it was in flames and coming straight at the car seat!
ok ok i tried to stay calm and unbuckle the seat and i got it on the third try but then the car just blew up i quickly ran away with the car seat safely in me arms i got on the tour bus and was now trying to find a safe place for the car seat to sit
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2010 21:41:50 GMT -5
"She won't stop fussing" i said with a concerned tone in my voice. "What could be wrong?" George had helped me feed her but she wouldn't take the bottle. I then tried burping her but she wasn't gassy at all. Her diaper was dry too. "Hey, hey, hey, sweetie. Shh, it's okay, uh, uh," I began to sing. "Lullaby and goodnight da de der de da dum dum." I couldn't find the right lullaby for her. "Hey here's an idea maybe she just needs a bedtime story?" Someone suggested. "Tried that didn't work." I replied
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2010 20:34:57 GMT -5
keep editing ve13 and we'll go places ;D
suggestions would be nice.
"Can't ya shut the kid up, Keith?" Paul asked Keith.
"No, I've tried everything and she still won't stop crying!" Keith replied worridly.
The baby began to cry hysterically all over again, and as it did, Keith attempted to shush it, but failed miserably
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 19:01:29 GMT -5
"RYAN! RYAN! PLEASE WAKE UP!" Keith cried out hysterically while frantically shaking him .
"WHAT WHAT?" He asked confused and dazed.
"It's the baby! She sounds like shes gasping for air!"
"WHAT? Oh my God!" Ryan replied alarmed, as he quickly followed Keith toward the craddle that the lads had made for the baby.
"What happened?" Ryan asked, concerned
"I don't know!" Keith replied looking over toward the baby in the craddle. "I was rocking her gently to sleep when she started coughing up huge amounts of blood!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2010 19:00:31 GMT -5
Keith turned the little girl on her side and let the blood drain out of her mouth. He opened her mouth and breathed a HUGE sigh of relief.
"It looks like she just cut the inside of her lip. Let's put some ice on it and she'll be better in no time." Keith said as Ryan went to find some ice. In the meantime, the baby started crying again, crying really hard. Keith picked her up and ... well, this was a no-brainer, she had a FULL diaper.
"Hey Ryan, where are you?"
"I'm right here with the ice." They put the ice on the baby's lip and she stopped crying. And then, the baby burped, now she REALLY had FULL diaper - and Ryan was still holding her.
"Gotta go!" said Keith, leaving Ryan to change the baby's diaper.
"WAIT! Get back here! It's your turn!" yelled Ryan.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2010 23:18:57 GMT -5
"Man i never knew a baby could be this much work!"
"I know, but it's all worth it." Ryan said while smiling down at the sleeping baby in his arms.
"Uh Ryan are you sure she's just sleeping?"
"Yeah, here take her i'm gonna go get a DD from the pub." He handed the baby off to Keith and went to the fridge. Before he could get the drink, he heard a yell from the other room,
"RYAN!!!!!!!!!!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2010 22:33:27 GMT -5
"Sweetie, sweetheart, please!" Keith pleaded as he yet again did mouth to mouth resusitation with the baby.
"C'mon, c'mon, no, no please, no!"
Ryan was on the phone with 911 right down the aisle of the bus. "Yes yes we've been doing CPR for 20 minutes."
"Ok, Paul, tell the bus driver to move over so the ambulance can find us." Ryan started to give out orders while Keith still preformed CPR on the baby.
"Wait, wait! She's coughing but she's still having trouble breathing and her body color's changing!" Keith called.
"Ambulance is on the way!" Ryan yelled from the other room.
"Great! It's ok, baby. You're gonna be fine Keith and the rest of us." Keith soothed as they tried to keep the baby warm.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 22:19:07 GMT -5
So, as Ryan and Keith rode with the baby in the ambulance to the hospital, George and Damian decided to meet them there. They were very worried as George was speeding.
They were two blocks from the hospital when they were pulled over by a police officer. The officer walked up to the driver's window, "May I please see your license and registration?" While finding these, George replied, "Officer, please, my friends and a baby are being rushed to the hospital and we are just trying to get there as fast as we can."
The officer, while checking out George's credentials said, "Sir, I'm sympathetic to your plight, but there is NO reason to speed and travel in an unsafe manner." George agreed. After the officer wrote George a ticket, he said, "Tell you what - because I am a father myself, I'll give you an escort the rest of the way to the hospital."
With sirens blaring, George, Damian, and the Police officer sped to the hospital and got there JUST as the ambulance with Ryan, Keith and the baby arrived.
Keith and Ryan jumped out of the ambulance first. The paramedics brought out the stretcher with the baby on it. One of the paramedics was bagging the baby as she was still having trouble breathing on her own. They rushed into the emergency room, where the doctors and nurses hooked the baby girl up to the oxygen saturation monitor, the heart monitor, and started taking her vitals. One of the nurses ushered Keith and Ryan into the waiting room where George and Damian were waiting.
"We'll let you know the baby's condition as soon as we can." All four guys looked at each other - Keith and Ryan had tears in their eyes. They all started to hug each other and Damian started to sing, "Like a Bird Without Wings." Everyone in the emergency department stopped to listen because it was so beautiful and so heart wrenching at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2010 15:49:07 GMT -5
It felt like hours had passed, when in reality it had only been about 30 minutes. Finally, a doctor, Steven Lawrence, came into the waiting room. He asked where the baby's parents were. Keith and the guys walked up to him and said they were the only family she had there. The doctor took them into a separate room.
"I'm not going to lie to you" said Dr. Lawrence. "Her condition is grave. She's a very sick little girl and it's a miracle you got her here in time." Right now, we are placing her on a ventilator, which will help her breathe."
"What's wrong with her?" asked Keith.
"She has severe double pneumonia," said Dr. Lawrence.
"But Dr. Lawrence, she was in a car accident. We didn't know she was sick, we just thought she had been injured in the accident."
Dr. Lawrence look at all four men with surprise in his eyes. "From the standpoint of being in an accident, she's completely fine. Her CAT scan was clear. She doesn't have any bruising or scratches on her body anywhere. It's amazing how things work out. If she hadn't been brought in due to this accident, she probably would have died - not from accident-related injuries - but due to her pneumonia."
Everyone was silent for a moment. "Can we see her?" asked Damian.
"Not yet" said Dr. Lawrence. "Once we get her stabilized in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit we'll let you up to see her. By the way, what's her name?"
"We aren't sure," said Keith, "but I've been calling her my little Loreli." There were tears in his eyes as he said this.
"I'll put this on her chart." said Dr. Lawrence as he walked out of the room.
Keith looked at the rest of the guys and said, "It looks like we're in for the long haul. Why doesn't someone go see if they can scare up some food?" George, who was very hungry (everyone could tell because his stomach kept growling) said he would go.
After he left, Keith looked at Ryan and Damian. "How do you think George would feel about adding a little girl to our group?"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2010 13:22:18 GMT -5
The lads sat waiting for news of Loreli. If she got better, they wondered how they were going to care for her, especially while they were on tour. While they each had family that could care for her, they really didn't want to let her go.
George came back with food, which they all dug into with relish. "George," asked Keith, "Do you suppose we could adopt Loreli and then take her on tour with us?"
"I'm not so sure about that," said George. "Who would take care of her while we're practicing and singing? It's not much of a life for a young one."
"But George," said Damian, "We could hire a nurse-maid and have her take care of Loreli."
"Hmmm," said George, "That's a thought."
"Lads," said Keith sadly, "We're getting ahead of ourselves here. We don't even know if she's going to make it or not." That brought a sense of quiet contemplation for the lads. Each one praying in their own way that little Loreli would pull through. A while later, Dr. Lawrence came into the room. "I wanted to give you an update on Loreli's condition. She's actually doing much better. It's amazing, she seemed to be at death's door and all of the sudden her condition started to improve." A cheer went up from all the lads and they started hugging each other.
"Can we see her now?" Damian asked.
Ssure but you just have to be on the softer side with her." Dr. Lawrence said with a smile.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2010 21:55:35 GMT -5
The lads were just about to go and see Loreli, when a quiet voice behind them said, "Excuse me."
The lads and Dr. Lawrence turned around to see a young woman with eyes like the bluest sky and red, fire hair. Each one of them just stood staring at her. She decided she would need to break the ice.
"I'm here about the little girl that was brought in by ambulance. Can one of you tell me how she is doing?"
Dr. Lawrence stepped over to the woman, "Ma'am, she seems to be doing better. How do you know her?"
"My name is Bronwyn. I was in one of the cars involved in the accident. I heard mention that a baby had been hurt and just wanted to find out she was doing."
The lads finally found their voices. "Excuse me," said Damian, "So you don't know who the baby's parents are?"
"No." said Bronwyn. She looked at the men and realized they were a very nice looking group and she also realized that they looked familiar. Bronwyn asked, "Do I know you?"
"My name is Damian and these are my friends Keith, Ryan, George, and Paul. We are the group known as Celtic Thunder.†said Damian.
"Oh my," said Bronwyn, "I thought you all looked familiar." Dr. Lawrence interrupted indicating that he had to return to the emergency room to look in on another patient.
"Loreli’s room is just down the hall - room 125," he said as he left the room.
The lads all rushed to the door at once and Keith, looking over his shoulder, asked, "Do you want to come and meet Loreli?"
"Sure," Bronwyn said. They all rushed down the hall and, as they approached room 125, they slowed. They could hear a baby softly whimpering. As they looked around the corner, they saw a nurse gently turning Loreli over as she fastened a diaper on her.
She turned around and saw all of them standing the doorway and put a finger to her lips, "She's just fallen back to sleep."
They all walked into the room, as a sense of quiet, filled them all. There, lying in a crib much to big for her was Loreli. She had an IV in her arm and a feeding tube going into her nose. There were several machines surrounding her bed. The doctors had removed the ventilation tubing as Loreli had started to breath on her own.
They surrounded the bed and looked down on her. "Man, I hope she makes it," Damian said.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2010 15:04:33 GMT -5
Keith laughed as he stood near Loreli's bed. She had been admitted to a room in the intensive care unit. Keith had called Sharon, the number one rule while being a part of Celtic Thunder was to call the producer if you have a conflict. Sharon had cancelled four shows already for their tour.
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Post by celticbear on Oct 30, 2010 22:18:06 GMT -5
Okay HC you win! I'll help you with Thunder Baby!
Okay every body here's my first stab at updating Thunder Baby for HC. Let us both know what you all think about us team writting this story as well the story of Lauren Harkin.
Two days latter Dr. Lawerence had been told by the police that the body of Loreli's parents have been found. They did not survive the crash and there are no living relatives to claim their baby. Sharon had arrived earlier that day and she heard the whole thing.
"Okay Lads I can not cancel anymore shows we are due in Houston in two days so something has to be done about Loreli by the end of today."
Bronwyn heard everything and she said she would like to help but she can't. The lads went get something to eat.While they wer, Damian remembered something, a huge secret that Keith had been keeping from all the fans. Keith looks at Damo and Keith tell the lads he has the sollution he will take Laureli. It will just mean turning the back private bedroom into a small nursery plus hoping and praying. he can convince his CT Thunderhead of a Fan Girlfriend Treena to leave Houston sooner than planed. The lads look at Keith as if he has lost his mind!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 20:46:24 GMT -5
"Hey Lads," said Damian, "I have something to suggest. We may have a way to keep Laurlie with us."
All the lads looked at Damian with hope in their eyes. Even Bronwyn looked hopeful. "Keith," said Damian, "I think you have something to tell everyone that you have been keeping secret."
Keith looked sheepishly at everyone. "Well," he said, "I have been seeing someone for quite some time and she's very special to me lads. I think she's THE one for me."
"What does this have to do with Laurelie?" asked Paul.
"Well, see I've been thinking of ... well, you know, asking her to ...", gulped Keith.
"Yes?", asked George, with a gleam in his eye.
"Marry me." said Keith in a rush.
"Keith," said Bronwyn, "I know you and the lads want to keep Laurelie, but getting married to keep her? Does your girlfriend want children? Have you and she discussed how soon you want to start a family if you get married?"
Keith flushed, "Treena is a very nice lady and none of you have met her. I'm not sure about what Bronwyn has asked and, even if she says yes, we would have to find a new place to live because our house isn't big enough for us and a child."
"But," said Damien, "What about the back room. Couldn't you convert it into a nursery?"
"Keith," said George, "I think Bronwyn has brought up a good point. You shouldn't get married for the sake of Laurelie. Do you love Treena? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with her and raise a child that is not part of your family or hers?"
"I don't know," said Keith sadly.
Damien, looking thoughtful, said, "You know, my sister and her husband have been married for several years. They have been trying to have a baby but haven't been able to. I wonder if they would want to adopt Laurelie? If so, she could stay in the family and we could visit her whenever we go home."
They all looked at each other. Bronwyn, looking hopeful and sad at the same time, said, "What a great idea Damien. When can you call them to find out if they are interested in doing this? We don't want Laurelie to wind up in foster care."
"I'll go call right now," said Damien, running from the room.
Keith, looking a little crestfallen, said, "Um, thank you all for taking my idea seriously. I think you're right, though, I'm really not sure I'm ready for the kind of comittment necessary for a marriage. I think I love Treena, but we need to spend more time with each other to make sure we want to stay together for the rest of our lives."
So, everyone sat in Laurelie's room waiting for Damien to return. Laurelie opened her eyes, saw all of them, and started to smile.
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