Affinity House by Ruth Hay

Author:Ruth Hay [Hay, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ruth Hay

It was three more worrying days before Eve returned to her own room at Harmony House.

She returned with a diagnosis of stage three liver cancer and a proposed program of chemotherapy to start in the following week.

Everyone stayed positive but Eve was beginning to understand how ill she was and the knowledge frightened her. She kept the fear at bay by painting furiously on her easel by the window.

She was banned from the kitchen and Mavis took over the task of buying supplies and cooking nutritious meals for all the residents.

Vilma ordered fresh delicacies and frozen prepared meals to be delivered from the delicatessen in town. She sat with Eve whenever tea and cookies were planned, in order to interrupt her art work and make her rest. Vilma found this a good distraction from her own worries about her future and she listened while Eve described O’Keefe’s Black Iris and White Bird of Paradise works.

“I will never be able to paint like that,” she confessed. “But she has inspired me to be more adventurous. I would like to do some new work before…...”

Vilma felt a shiver run down her back as the sentence tailed off. It was as if Eve had a presentiment about her illness and the limited time she had left. She quickly turned the discussion to the weather and the prospects of an early spring but in her heart of hearts she was afraid for Eve and decided not to repeat the incident to Mavis or Hilary.

Honor was consulting a variety of online sources about liver cancer and compiling a dossier of treatments, their premier hospital locations, and their effectiveness rates.

Jannice was making a request at work for an extended leave for compassionate reasons. She had seen patients with liver cancer before, and she wanted to be fully available if Eve needed individual care during the chemotherapy.

Life seemed to go on as usual, but beneath the surface there was concern and fear.

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