Creature Comforts (The Extraordinarily Ordinary Life of Cassandra Jones) by Tamara Hart Heiner

Author:Tamara Hart Heiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: chapter book, middle grade, summer camp, accident, snakes, hospital, emergency, sickness, free, kids, girls, free books for girls kids
Publisher: Tamark Books
Published: 2016-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Professional Walker

“Look at this leg.” Zack grinned at her as a doctor she didn’t know prodded and poked her and wrote down a few things in her chart. “Your foot already looks better.”

It did. Cassie could see her toes again, and even some ankle definition.

“How was walking yesterday?” Zack asked.

The doctor looked up, raising her eyebrows. “You’ve already walked on this?”

“A little,” Cassie said. “I got tired yesterday. I just went to Tom’s room.”

Zack nodded and squeezed her shoulder. “Good thinking to come in and rest when you got tired.”

Cassie smiled, not about to admit how hard walking had been for her.

“That’s good,” the doctor said. “Everything is looking great. You should be able to walk around on it easier today. Tomorrow you can leave, if all continues this way. We’ll get you some crutches when you are discharged.” She handed Cassie a paper cup of water and the usual giant pills, or horse pills, as Zack called them. “Take your meds. Wash them down with extra water.”

She did as expected, excitement mounting in her chest. Girls Club Camp started Sunday. If she got out of the hospital on Friday, surely that gave her enough time to go to camp.

Cassie knew her mom would come by soon, but she was anxious to try walking again. She was surprised at how much easier it was to slide her legs off the bed today. She put her feet on the ground and took a few ginger steps. Definitely painful, but not nearly as hard as the day before.

She crept out the door and over to Tom’s room. It looked busy. Several kids played with toys around Tom’s bed, and a fat man sat overflowing in the chair Cassie had sat in the day before. More balloons and streamers decorated the room.

She didn’t want to stay, but she poked her head in. “Happy birthday, Tom!” she called, waving.

He turned his head toward her. There were purple circles under his eyes, and he didn’t look all that excited. “Thank you,” he said.

Not sure what else to do, Cassie stepped out and continued to Kevin’s room.

“You’re up!” Kevin was, too, and heading for the door. “I’m going to the game room. Want to come?”

“Yes,” Cassie said, though her leg was already throbbing. She was very curious about this room.

It wasn’t much bigger than a living room, and just down the hall from their rooms. A movie played on the big screen, and two kids sat in front of a video game console, controllers in their hands. Kevin pulled out a box of checkers and sat at one of the low tables. “Want to play?”

“Sure.” Cassie sat across from him. She watched other kids shuffle in and out. A girl with short hair and glasses came in, putting one foot in front of the other in slow, halting steps. She dragged an IV pole behind her, and a woman followed.

“That’s Maggie,” Kevin said, making his first move. “She’s the one who had her appendix out.”

“Oh,” Cassie said.

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