The Best Is Yet to Be by Eve Fisher

Author:Eve Fisher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780824907563
Publisher: Guideposts
Published: 2007-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

An hour later Paul and Kate were sitting in the waiting room at the Pine Ridge Hospital, waiting for word on Amanda’s condition.

“I don’t see anybody from Copper Mill here but us,” Kate said. “You’d think whoever brought her would have stayed.”

“Junius brought her,” Paul said. “He’d gone by to pick her up to take her over to the Bixby house, and she wasn’t feeling well. In fact, she was feeling so bad she asked him to bring her right over to the hospital. Once they admitted her, she told Junius to go back to Copper Mill and let everyone know why she wasn’t going to be there to help deliver meals tomorrow.”

Kate shook her head in admiration. “Now that’s dedication,” she said.

“Amen. She’s a very special lady,” Paul said. “Joe was with me and Sam in the Country Diner when Junius came in and told us. Joe turned white as a sheet. I almost thought he was going to faint.” Paul looked at her with a flicker of amusement. “If there’s a quarrel there, I think it’s all on her side.”

Kate flushed. “Well, I never said I knew what had happened between them.”

“I know.” Paul added quietly, “I told Joe that I’d be coming up here as soon as I found you, and he told me to give her his best. I think he cares for her a great deal.”

“I agree,” Kate replied. “But there’s something...I don’t think she trusts him.”

“Mmm. I wish—” Paul began but broke off as Dr. McLaughlin came walking up to them, his lab coat flapping around his lanky frame.

“Pastor Hanlon! Kate!”

“How is she?” Paul asked.

“Well, she’s not doing too bad,” the doctor said. “It was a mild heart attack. We’ve given her aspirin and done an angioplasty, and there’s been a ninety percent improvement in her heart function. We’ve got her on appropriate medication, and she’s doing well. Tired but well.” He smiled and added in a reassuring tone, “I think she’s going to be fine.”

“Oh, that’s wonderful,” Kate said.

“How long is she going to have to stay in the hospital?” Paul asked.

“Probably about a week. I certainly don’t want to let her go home until I’m absolutely certain that everything is under control. Would you like to see her briefly?” Dr. McLaughlin asked.

Paul and Kate nodded, and made their way down the hallway to the patient rooms. Dr. McLaughlin had said that Amanda was in the very last room. When they entered they noticed that half the lights were off, and Amanda’s bed was flanked by machines that made various hisses, drips, and beeps. Kate’s heart cried out when she saw Amanda. She looked so very frail, so very sick, and so very much older. The change stunned Kate for a moment, until she realized that Amanda’s eyes were closed and her hair had been taken out of its immaculate French knot. The thin, white wisps of hair were unkempt and tangled on her pillow. I’ve got to remember to have someone comb her hair before she sees a mirror, Kate thought.

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