No Distance Too Far by Lauraine Snelling

Author:Lauraine Snelling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781441207739
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

17

By the time they arrived, Elizabeth was asleep and Ingeborg couldn’t see anything unusual, so she joined Thelma in the kitchen to finish making supper while Thorliff took Freda back home. Ingeborg checked on Elizabeth through the night but didn’t notice any changes. The next morning she sat waiting for Elizabeth to wake.

“He worries more than a wet hen,” Elizabeth muttered when she saw Ingeborg there.

“Only about you.” Ingeborg felt Elizabeth’s ankles and feet. There was some swelling but not any worse than the day before. “What made him think you were worse?”

“I got dizzy when I stood up and had to sit down real quick on the edge of the bed. He’d get dizzy too if he spent as much time in bed as I have.” Lines furrowed her brow. “He says I fainted, but I was just dizzy.”

“Of course he’d have to be pregnant to get the same feelings.” The two smiled at each other. Are the circles under her eyes darker, her skin more translucent, or am I, like Thorliff, imagining things? Ingeborg held Elizabeth’s wrist and counted her pulse. At least with this she could check records. She glanced at the paper she kept on the nightstand. About the same.

“I listened to the baby’s heartbeat, and it is holding steady. Inge-borg, you know I know and understand what is going on. If I feel truly worse, I will tell you.”

“Is that a promise?”

Elizabeth paused for a moment before she nodded. “I promise.”

“Keep in mind that you might not always be objective. Your desire to take care of others is far stronger than your desire to take care of yourself.” Ingeborg plumped the pillows so Elizabeth could sit up more comfortably.

“I am not an invalid.”

“I know that, but you are a rather difficult patient.”

“Doctors are supposed to be so. It’s the law.”

Ingeborg chuckled. “How much have you been up?”

“Only to the bathroom.”

“What’s wrong with the potty chair in here?”

“Inga thinks it the funniest thing ever.”

“You didn’t answer my question.”

“I hate to make more work for Thelma and Freda.” Elizabeth held up her hands, palms out. “All right. I promise that too. I will use the seat in here. I will drink plenty of water. I will stay in bed. Can Emmy come and play with Inga here in my room? I so love to watch them. Surely reading to them won’t tax my strength.”

“All right, if you promise to send them out when you start to feel tired.”

Elizabeth rolled her eyes. “Maybe you’d better rephrase that. I feel bone weary all the time, but yes, I will send them off when I need to sleep.” Hands flat on the sheet that covered her, she sighed. “Please forgive me for being cranky. I know you are all trying your best to help me keep this baby. I guess the good Lord is trying to teach me some patience.”

“You want me to read to you?”

“Oh, please do. I’ve been reading the Psalms. The reminders to praise God are as necessary to me as breathing.

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