Dave and Leroy Ch. 05

Leroy was taken into a curtain off room with a bed. On the bed was a plastic bag, socks with those rubber grips and a gown, he was told to remove all his clothes, any jewelry and his dog tags. The nurse left out of the room and pulled the curtain closed. Leroy removed his clothes and dog tags, he waited to remove his ring until Dave was back with him, which he wanted to give that to him to hold. He stuck everything in the bag and put the gown on and sat on the edge of the bed.

The nurse came back and asked if he was dressed before she opened the curtain. She had him sit back on the bed and took all his vitals, temp, blood pressure and heart rate. Then she started an IV on him, it relaxed him a lot. Once she was finished she asked who was waiting for him, he told her his family and that he would like his boyfriend Dave and whomever else to come in with him. She smiled and told him that she would have them sent in an a few minutes.

Leroy laid his head back and closed his eyes, he knew they must have something in the IV to be relaxing him, because he was feeling sleepy. The next thing he knew was Dave was sitting there next to him and his father. "Hey Sweetie." Leroy said when he opened his eyes.

"They seem to have you very relaxed right now." Dave smiled at him, Leroy just nodded.

"Son, I am going to go out, you and Dave can have some alone time together, we will see you when you come out of surgery. I love you, Son."

"Thanks, Dad, love you too." Leroy looked from his father back to Dave and but never saw his father leave the area.

"Dave, will you hold this for me." Leroy took off his ring and handed it to him. Dave put it on the same finger that the matching ring was on. Leroy smiled at him and Dave bent down and kissed him. "I love you, more then you ever will know."

"I know Lee, I love you too. Please don't leave me." The nurse was right outside the curtain she didn't want to interrupt but she had to come in and asked a few questions before the anesthesiologist came in.

"I am never going to leave you. I..." The nurse came through the curtain, she told him that she had just a few questions before the anesthesiologist comes in, which would only be a few minutes from now because he was in with another patient. She asked the questions she needed and as she was leaving the anesthesiologist came in. He did his assessment, checking to make sure Leroy had a good clear airway, asking if he was allergic to anything or had surgeries in the past. Then he let him know it would only be a few more minutes before someone would be coming to wheel him back.

Dave hugged Leroy, and Leroy pulled him into a kiss. "I won't leave you, I will go to sleep and then I will wake up with you holding my hand, right?" Dave smiled at Leroy.

"Yes Babe, I will be holding your hand as soon as they let me see you. I love you."

A few minutes later the transport team came to collect Leroy and take him back to the operating room. Leroy pulled Dave back into a hug and kissed him in front of the team, he didn't care anymore who saw him. They wheeled him back while Dave watch him go, Dave walked slowly out to the waiting room. The nurse caught him just before he got to the door, "They will keep you informed, it will be ok. If you watch the progress board it will show when they start the procedure and depending on how long it is, the doctor may send a nurse out to tell you how it is going." She looked him in the eye and told him everything will be ok, Dave smiled at her and walked out into the waiting area.

The wait was excruciating Dave was pacing back and forth, Allison would get him to sit down for a bit, but then he would get back up and start again. His surgery started at seven that morning and it was now nine and no word about what was happening. A nurse came out and called out for the Standish family and Dave and everyone stood up, she walked over to them.

"I am sorry, that I couldn't make it out sooner, he is doing fine, they finally were able to get to the tumor, and it is out. The doctor was doing a few motor tests on him, so they had to wake him up while they had him open." Everyone cringed at the thought of that. "The doctor is closing him up now, there is already a room for him and everyone can go and wait for him there. We will be bringing him up shortly." She handed Dave a piece of paper with a room number on it. He smiled and thanked her, then she turned around and went back into the pre-op area.

Everyone headed to the room that was assigned to Leroy, it was small but at least it was a private room. Everyone stood or sat down while they waited for Leroy to be transported up. It was maybe twenty minutes later when they rolled him in, they asked if everyone could step out while they get him into the bed, every started to leave but Dave. "Sir, please you can come back in after we get him settled."

"I am not leaving him." Dave responded.

They didn't push it further and started aligning the beds so they could transfer Leroy to the other one. Leroy's head was completely bandaged, he was still asleep when they pulled the pad that he was laying on with him to the other bed. They had him propped on his left side, they told Dave that when he does wake completely that it would be best that he doesn't lay on his right because it will hurt him more it was the side of the doctor open up. They hooked him up to the heart monitor and blood pressure cuff and left the room.

Dave immediately pulled a chair up to the bed and held Leroy's hand. Everyone and the nurse came in, she checked everything and then told them the doctor will come in later after the rest of his surgeries. She emptied his catheter bag and recorded all his vitals. "When he wakes up, please put his light on and I will come down and check to see if he needs any pain relief." Then she left out.

It wasn't long before Leroy woke, he could hear mumbling but he couldn't open his eyes right away. He could feel someone holding his hand. After a while, he could open his eyes but he couldn't keep them open for long, he was staring at Dave when he did open them. Finally after a bit longer he was able to keep them open, he was watching Dave talk, Dave was still holding his hand. Allison cued Dave in that he was awake and he turned and his smile was huge. "Hey Babe."

"Sweetie." Leroy said and closed his eyes for a minute.

"Lee, are you going to reopen them? Honey, please."

Leroy opened his eyes and stared again at Dave, everyone else was starting to come into view, he looked around. "Is it supposed to hurt just moving my eyes? Holy hell."

"Let me put your light on and we can ask the nurse." Dave reached for the call light and pushed the button. "I love you honey."

"Ditto." Leroy and Dave smiled and after a minute or so Leroy spoke again. "Dave?"

"Yeah."

"I love you too." Which made Dave a little teary eyed because Leroy doesn't tell him that much in front of people or his family.

"Oh God, you are the woman in the relationship." Chris blurted out and laughed.

"I told you that a long time ago and I am still proud of it Chris." Everyone smiled at Dave. "Baby the doctor will come by later to talk with all of us, but they did get it all."

Everyone talked and Leroy went in and out of consciousness for a while until the anesthesia was completely out of his system, he woke up in pain. Leroy had tears coming out of his eyes and Dave didn't know how to soothe him, he put on the call button and waited for the nurse to come in again. They told her that he was in pain and she went to get a shot for him. She came back a little while later to administer the shot and told him it should be working very soon, before she walked out Leroy was starting to calm down.

Dr. Harding came in later in the evening. "Well, it wasn't cancerous, we did get it all and we will have to watch him in the future to make sure nothing grows again." He did some preliminary exams on Leroy, asked him a few questions and told him he would see him the next day and left out of the room, Dave and everyone thanked him.

When visiting hours were over everyone hugged Leroy before they left, Dave stayed he wasn't going to leave Leroy alone, the nurses didn't even try to push him out. When Leroy finally fell to sleep after another pain shot, Dave laid his head down on his bed he was still holding his hand.

Sometime in the middle of the night when Leroy was woken to get his vitals, he woke Dave up and told him to lay with him. Dave got in front of him and let Leroy spoon him. When the nurse came by later, she wasn't happy about it but she didn't tell Dave to get out of the bed.

The next morning, Lee and Allison came back up. They came right when visiting hours started, they were surprised to see Dave cuddled in bed with Leroy and them both sleeping. They sat there just talking quietly together until the happy couple woke. Dave smiled at them and went to get out of the bed so no one would feel uncomfortable, but Leroy held tight to him. "Leroy, come on let's not make your family uncomfortable."

Leroy didn't answer him, he tighten Dave to him even more, Dave couldn't figure out what was going on until Leroy started shaking and it was Allison that said she thinks he is having a seizure. She jumped up, pushed the nurses call light and tried to help free Dave from Leroy and then all of a sudden Leroy stopped shaking and loosen his hold on Dave. They didn't realize until he was gasping for air that he had also stopped breathing.

Dave was standing beside the bed trying to get Leroy to talk to him, when the nurse came in. They told her what had happened and she told them she will get a hold of the doctor now and left out immediately, telling them that she would be right back. Leroy was looking at Dave but he wasn't completely focusing in on him.

Dave continued to try to get a response out of Leroy and then Leroy finally spoke up, "What, I kept saying what."

"No Leroy you haven't, we think you just had a seizure." Dave responded.

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Author Note:

This is not the last chapter but it will be for a week or so, because my partner took me to Disney World and I am going to run around for Valentine's Day and my 41st birthday next week, like the biggest kid in the place. I hope that you are enjoying my story. Thank you for reading.