Mercy by Echo Heron

Author:Echo Heron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

Cat pulled Professor Dean to the side of the bed farthest from the puddle of liquid stool and washed the infected and sloughing skin of his buttocks.

He clicked off the cassette player and removed one earphone. “I’m sorry. I told the nurse. He must not…have understood what…was needed.”

“Don’t be sorry.” She exchanged a soiled washcloth for a clean one. “It wasn’t your fault. It was the fault of the nurse who ignored your request for the bedpan. I’ll speak with him and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

“No. Please. Don’t want…anyone put out.”

It wasn’t the first time she’d been put into a situation involving an errant nurse and a patient who wanted to keep peace, even at the expense of his own comfort and well being.

But because it was Alan, and because it had happened so many times before, she would not let it slide.

“Let me ask you this, professor: if another professor was screwing up, and you knew it was harming his students, and that it was something he did consistently, what would you do?”

“But this was…such a…small thing.”

“Perhaps, but it isn’t the first small thing.”

He nodded. “Oh. I see.”

She continued to scrub him, her anger building until she was clenching her teeth.

It wasn’t until she’d finished bathing him that she finally noticed that most of the balloons had dropped another few inches from the ceiling.

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