Patient 247: Cinnamon Roll Saviors by Carmen Richter

Author:Carmen Richter [Richter, Carmen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

“Can you hold that side still for me so I can tighten this?” I asked once Hope was comfortably settled back in bed.

“Yep,” she said, still a little out of breath, as she grasped one side of the abdominal binder that I’d moved back up to where it was supposed to be on her thigh.

Using all my upper body strength, I pulled the Velcro tight across her leg and fastened it.

“Fuuuuuuuck,” she groaned.

For a split second, my mind went to a place it didn’t need to go. A place that it was getting harder and harder not to let it wander to by the day.

I wondered what she’d sound like groaning that word in pleasure rather than pain. What kind of sounds she’d make while I devoured her like my last meal. How she’d sound screaming my name as I made her come undone.

“So, I saw on your chart that they’re talking about discharging you to a rehab center tomorrow,” I said, desperate to divert my brain to something else.

Something that didn’t involve blurring the fuzzy line I was walking any more than it already was. For the second time today.

“That’s what they’re telling me.”

Yep, that did the trick. Just thinking about the very real possibility that this could be my last night caring for her made my heart sink.

“They did an ultrasound of my kidneys today just to make sure there’s nothing else going on other than just the infection and antibiotics messing with them,” she sighed, bringing my attention back to the conversation. “But the doctor was gone by the time they were done, so I won’t know the results until tomorrow. I kind of hate that. I don’t do well having to wait for news. Makes my anxiety skyrocket.”

“I know how that goes,” I murmured sympathetically. “I’m the same way.”

“Especially when they couldn’t actually get a clear picture of them. Two things you absolutely don’t want to hear while you’re getting an ultrasound on your kidneys are, ‘Have you ever had surgery on your kidneys before? Do you have both of them?’ Literally, they said it exactly like that.”

I let out a shocked chuckle, unable to believe the ultrasound tech had been so blunt and flippant about something that serious. Some of the people in this place really needed to go back to sensitivity training.

“Wow,” I said with a snort. “I mean, what did they expect you to say? ‘Oh, that explains the time I woke up in the bathtub in Tijuana.’”

Hope burst into a fit of giggles. Honest-to-God uncontrollable laughter. The sound was so infectious that I couldn’t help but join in.

And this might have been my last chance to ever hear it.

“Oh, my God,” she laughed. “I totally should have said that. I might have to steal that next time someone asks me a stupid question about whether I have all of my organs.”

“Hopefully you’ll never have a need for a one-liner like that again, but it’s all yours if you ever need it,” I teased.

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