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Stevie comes to stand nearht"

I rear up on the table and practically shriek at Stevie, "You ass…that’s not appropriate here"

"Yes," Dr Yoffman says drily as he walks up to the table and eases me back doith a hand on my shoulder "We want to keep her blood pressure stable, so no talking about hot sex while I’ets red and he y I reach out and slap hi look to behave, then I take his hand in mine and squeeze it hard He looks atDr Yoff, but I can hear Dr Yoff around, the squeak of stiff wheels on the loves

Dr Yoff by the cool air that hitshe’s exposed my lower back and half s up, Olivia"

I do as he asks and he starts pressing onfor your sacroiliac crest That’s where I’ll go in"

He presses around, deeply, and then I can feel a cool, wet feeling "I’ you with a Sharpie"

I feelin circles around the area and Dr Yoff a sterile dressing over the site"

His hands press so rattle on the tray, and I watch Stevie’s eyes go wide and his skin get pale "I’ just a bit"

I barely feel the prick of the needle and I think to et a little deeper with the needle so I can numb around the bone," Dr Yoffman says, but I still can’t really feel it After a few seconds, he says, "All done"

Stevie ss hard and leans doardneedle"

"I hardly felt it," I tell hihter

"Okay, Olivia…I’ a tiny incision," Dr Yoffht…I don’t feel anything