Page 3 of Family Bonds- Jarrett & Andi

Jarrett continued to monitor the woman and was looking around hoping to find a phone or any ID on her, but she wastwisted funny, her butt on the ground and his guess was there was a phone in her back pocket. At least he hoped so. No one left home without a phone on them now.

“I hear the sirens,” he said a few minutes later. “I’m going to run up on the hill and flag them down. No way they can drive down here.”

He hung up and dashed up the hill toward the road, waved his hands and the ambulance came to a stop.

“We’ve been filled in,” Cody said. He knew this EMT who came from the firehouse where his brother Alex was a captain. He wasn’t sure who the other was and it didn’t matter.

“Down the hill,” he said, moving back. He watched as the EMTs came out with a stretcher from the back and their bags.

They all made their way down to the woman lying on the sand. Something reflected a few feet from her to the side and he walked over to see a phone lying there. He’d bet anything it was the woman’s, and when he flipped it over he saw a picture of her and a cat.

He put the phone in his pocket and made his way to the EMTs.

“She’s out cold,” Cody said. “But everything appears fine. Hopefully nothing major, but we’re going to move her slowlyandget her on the stretcher and bring her to the ER.

“I’ve got her phone,” he said. “Do you want to take it?”

“Hand it over,” Cody said. “I’ll give it to the hospital for them to see if they can open it and find an emergency contact if she doesn’t come to.”

“I’ll head over too,” he said.

He’d have to see this through. He couldn’t walk away without knowing who she was and if she was okay or not.

Once they had the woman on the stretcher, he helped the two of them carry her up to the ambulance. He wasn’t sure howthey’d do it alone, as the terrain was crazy steep even if it wasn’t that far of a drop.

He went back down and pushed his canoe into the water some, hopped inandpaddled back to where he’d launched it further down the shore.

He pulled it out and brought it to his SUVandsecured it on top and then drove home quickly to put his canoe on the side of theone-cargarage.

Then he ran into the house and changed so he wasn’t going to the hospital tracking in water and sitting around with wet sneakers and socks.

He was at the ER forty minutes later and walking to the desk. “Hi,” he said, pulling his badge out. “Jarrett Bond. They just brought an unconscious woman in via ambulance. I was wondering if I could get in the back to find out if she’s awake yet. I’m the one who found her.”

“Sure,” the woman said, buzzing him in. He didn’t think they would tell him no, but he’d always do things by the book.

So much for his day off.

He walked to the nurse’s station to see if he could find anything out when his cousin, Dr. Hudson Mills, moved out of a room.

“Hey,” Hudson said. “I heard you were on the scene of the woman brought in.”

“Yeah,” he said. “Is she awake?”

“Not yet,” Hudson said. “I’m going in there now. The nurses are checking her over and getting her vitals. I’ve done a quick check of her and nothing seems broken, but I’m going to have to run tests and hate doing that blind.”

“Did you check her phone for an emergency contact?” he asked.

“No one said there was a phone on her,” Hudson said.

“I gave it to Cody. The EMT.”

Hudson turned to go into a room and he followed. “Is there a phone here belonging to the patient?”

The nurses looked around the room. “Is that it on the counter?” Jarrett picked it up and saw the picture. “Yep.”

“Don’t know why they put it here,” Hudson said, moving the phone in front of the woman’s face to unlock it. “Here is an ICE, so let’s give them a call.”

Hudson put it on speaker and dialed. It rang three times and then a man answered, “Hey, Andi, what’s going on? You never call.”

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