"A few more minutes and I should have it," announced Dr. Helmut Steuben as he was on the finishing touches of repairing a detached retina of Nina's injure eye, "fortunately, her resting allowed the eye to heal itself a lot but..." He leaned over her, his lighted magnifier glasses allowing him to see in detail the damaged retina. He was showing it to Dr. Edward Tesh who was assisting, "...retinas need to be re-attached by a steady hand."
"Yes, I see," replied Dr. Tesh, "it is very delicate."
Steuben then took a tweezer like tool and with a laser suture, he re-attached it.
"Done!" he declared as he stood up, his instruments in hand, "now it will need time to re-adjust itself to her eye. Only time will tell if I will need to correct her vision."
He then turned to the attending nurse, "Bandage up the eye and keep her under for the next 12 hours and then return to her normal drip."
"Yes, Doctor," she answered as she began carrying out his instructions. The two men then made for the sink to clean up.
"It was a pleasure to have you assisting, Edward," praised Steuben with a smile.
"No, the pleasure was all mine," responded a smiling Dr. Tesh.
After a brief pause, Steuben asked, "So what happened with John? He was going to assist me on this."
"Heart transplant at Zhukovsky Station," explained Edward, "I saw him when he got back and boy was he in a mood. I didn't ask what was wrong though."
"Did he lose the patient?" inquired Steuben.
"No, he's doing fine," replied Edward, "I checked the file. Whatever happened must have been pretty traumatic."
"Well we all have days like that," stated Steuben, "maybe it's just as well that he takes some time to himself."
Steuben then made a check on the bandages over her eye and was satisfied.
"To the Pleasantview," declared Steuben, "this round is on me."
"No, it's on me!" declared Tesh.
"I said, it's on me!" demanded Steuben as they walked down the hall, continuing their friendly argument.
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