Bigamist_A Story by Elaine Flowers

Author:Elaine Flowers [Flowers, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780974738833
Google: 9xGDvwEACAAJ
Amazon: 0974738832
Goodreads: 42859330
Publisher: Before You Publish - Book Press
Published: 2018-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

13

Rose

…take your words and twist them.

I didn’t want to live. I didn’t want to fight. I didn’t want to cry. I didn’t want to remember him. I didn’t want to remember us. I didn’t want to talk about Rick being dead. I wanted to act as if the past eleven years hadn’t happened but that was impossible. Each one of our friends and fellow hospital workers needed closure and they were looking for me to provide a way for them to get it.

It was ridiculous, really, all three of us having our own service for the man we claimed as our husband. We were all as different as night and day—as I’m sure our tributes to Rick were. As hard as I tried not to join in the circus of it all, I eventually caved into the pressure and threw something together. I didn’t have it in me to put together an elaborate service so there was a carefully worded obituary, a few flowers, and kind words delivered by the Chief Resident.

It was hosted at a newly built recreation center, not far from Dallas Presby, with a small reception following. Dr. Salem Patel spoke softly over a group of a hundred or so doctors, friends, and hospital workers. It was all well and proper. Not too lavish, not too clinical. And it happened so quickly and spur of the moment that the media didn’t get wind of it in time to show up. Unlike Amy and Iris, I was spared that particular humiliation.

I tried returning to work. I needed to keep my mind preoccupied, but the situation was difficult to escape. I had friends tell me it would pass and that soon people would turn to the next scandal, forgetting about this one, but I found that hard to believe. It was everywhere.

It was a Thursday, normally the end of my work week but I had been working weekends since Rick died. Sitting home just made me crazy—made me miss him crazy—made me have crazy thoughts. I had taken on many of Rick’s patients, so work was plentiful—not to mention our research. My hands were full and I was beyond thankful for that.

“Dr. McDaniel, can you look over an x-ray for me? I’d like your opinion on a patient’s case.” Dr. Marie Joseph stood in front of me holding CT scans. “Follow me,” she added.

I did. Even though I was busy, I couldn’t ignore that she grabbed me by the elbow and escorted me off. We ducked into an observation room and she placed the scans on the monitor and flicked the light on.

I studied them closely. “What am I supposed to be looking for?”

I could hear Marie breathing heavily next to me.

“This looks like your basic case of calcium build up in the coronary… am I missing something?” I turned to find her staring at me. “Just a basic by-pass—a double.”

“Hey… I wanted to get you alone.” She cleared her throat. “I was contacted…” She cleared her throat again.

I waited.

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