Last Chance Hero by Cathleen Armstrong

Author:Cathleen Armstrong [Armstrong, Cathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042040, FIC027020, Self-realization—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441248534
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

“Well, the official word is that you’re going to be a mom, and it will probably happen around March 16.” Jess smiled as she pulled off her latex gloves the next afternoon and took a seat on the little stool in her examination room. “How have you been feeling?”

Lainie Braden swung her legs over the side of the examination table and sat up. “I’m feeling great now. I did get tired pretty easily for a while, and there was a time or two when I was afraid I was going to lose my breakfast, but I never did.”

“Good for you. Well, you’re doing great. You need to keep taking those prenatal vitamins. And you need to have some blood work done and an ultrasound. I’ll give you some paperwork to take to the lab at San Ramon General, and I should see you again in about eight weeks. Other than that, just keep doing what you’re doing. Do you have any questions?”

Lainie held her hands to her cheeks. “So, I’m really pregnant?”

Jess laughed out loud. “You had doubts?”

“No. No, I knew up here.” She tapped her head. “It’s just that nothing’s happening, except I have to pee all the time.”

“Believe me, a lot is happening. You just can’t see it yet, but you will.” Jess stood up. “Now, I’m going to let you get dressed. If you think of any questions or have any concerns at all, call me. That’s what I’m here for.”

Lainie, still wearing a spacy grin, nodded.

“I’m serious, Lainie. Call me. You’re going to get more advice than you know what to do with from everyone you see and hear horror stories that’ll make you wonder what you got yourself into. Everyone loves to enlighten a first-time mom. But you don’t have to listen.”

Lainie nodded again.

“Repeat. ‘I don’t have to listen.’”

“I don’t have to listen.”

“There you go, girlfriend, and don’t forget it.” Jess reached for the door. “I really am so happy for you, and tell Ray congratulations for me, would you?”

She left Lainie, still sitting in her paper robe smiling into the near distance, and went to her office, slipping off her lab coat as she closed the door behind her. Lainie was the last appointment of the day. She hadn’t exactly worked herself to death since she opened her office in Last Chance, but there had been at least a few appointments every day. She was especially pleased about Lainie. Besides being one of the first people Jess had met when she got to town, Lainie had become a friend, one of the few she had found time to make. It would be great to see her through her pregnancy and deliver her baby.

The schedule for tomorrow sat on her desk, and Jess was going over it when her cell phone rang and she saw Andy’s number displayed.

“Hi.” She smiled into the phone.

“I’ve got an injured player. Can you see him, or should we head on up to the ER in San Ramon?” Andy minced no words.

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