My name is Bobby Brown. I am the head of the medical personnel of RangeMan INC. I take care of everything from stubbed toes to gun shot or stab wounds.

Today on this fifth day of February of the year 2010 (I checked on my calendar) I sat with my feet propped up on my desk waiting for my shift to be over. I know even though my shift is over I'm not really off, being the only medical response in the building I'm on call twenty four seven. Seeing the clock finally land on three o'clock I stand and push my chair under my desk. As I begin to leave Lester comes in and stands next to me staring a hole thru me.

"Santos?" I ask

"Brown I have a question" he says

"What is it?"

"If someone falls and their leg and foot get hurt, should they go to the ER?"

"Depends on the severity. Are you in a lot of pain?" I ask

"Ohh No not me. I didn't fall" he tells me and then it hits me that I saw him leave earlier to go pick up Stephanie to pick up some skips

"Is Steph ok?"

"She says she is" he said as he sat down in my extra chair and I pull my chair back out to listen to him

"We went to pick up Hopper" he started

"OK"

"Hooper lives in this apartment complex. Steph and I went to his door and rang his doorbell, he never answered. We tried his door and low and behold it opened" he said giving me a look

"Well you two did the right thing by going in, he could have been on the floor having a heart attack or something" I said grinning at him

"Yea that's exactly what Steph and I thought. So anyways we go in and there is a set of steps that lead up into his apartment. We go up, look around, but find no Hopper. We were going back down the steps to leave when Steph turned back to say something to me" he said

"She was in front of you?" I asked

"Yea she was on the third step from the bottom and I was on the landing beginning my decent when all the sudden the step she was on fell and she went down. All I saw was her wrap herself around the banister and her leg under her. I ran down the steps to her calling her name but she told me not to touch her" Lester told me

"She probably was dazed and confused. The wind was probably knocked out of her" I tell him

"It seemed like forever before she moved, she just sat there on the second step breathing. I wanted to get out of there because we didn't know when Hopper would return home. Finally Steph brought her leg out from under her and sat there a second. I asked her if I could take her to the Emergency room but she refused, stood up, and walked out to the truck" he said

"Was it ok? Was it just hurt and bruised?" I asked him

"Well when I took off she asked me to go to Cluck in the Bucket for a bucket of chicken. She told me she just wanted to go home and lay down. On our way there she began crying and moaning. She said it felt like pins and needles all thru her foot and ankle"

"It was waking up from the trauma" I told him

"We go to the Bucket and I can in and got her a bucket and came back out. When I got back to the car she had took off her sock and shoe. I came around to her side and knelt down to look at it, Bobby it was swollen up like a cantaloupe"

"She needs it looked at man" I told him

"I tried to get her to go to the ER but she said it was just bruised. I took her home and she just couldn't figure how to make herself go on that foot. We finally made it into her apartment where I put her on the couch, grabbed her a plate, napkins, fork, and the chicken. She told me she was going to rest and eat and said I could go" he said rubbing his face

"She needs to be seen, but we can't force her" I told Les

"Yea" he said back to me

"Look man I'm off now and I'm tired, I'm going down to sleep awhile. If Steph calls in, in pain come get me but if she doesn't ill call her to check on her when I get up" I tell him as we both stand up

"Ok Buddy sleep well" Lester told me slapping me on the back

"Oh I intend to" I tell him as I walk out and over to the elevator