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Jessie glanced up at Jack, who hadn’t sat down Danny coughed on his shoulder
"What’s taking so long?" he asked, though the woone but a minute When she walked back to the , another, older lady stood there with a stethoscope around her neck and a pen in her hand She looked through theat Danny and motioned with her hand "Come on back"
Around the corner, Jessie and Jack were led into the busy ER and placed in a small room Jack sat next to the desk and placed Danny in his lap Jessie grabbed a chair and moved it closer
"I’ has Danny been sick?"
"Only a few hours He didn’t feel well before he went to bed, but he wasn’t coughing like this"
Teresa placed a sensor with tape on Danny’s finger "How high was his fever at hoht before we left"
"Good Most parents just rush in and don’t think"
Teresa asked a series of other questions Danny’s weight, previous illnesses, iies towhile the nurse wrote feverishly
She unplugged the sensor attached to Danny’s finger fro on hi you ca?" Jack asked
"If left alone," she confirmed "Don’t worry, we’ll take care of your little boy"
Neither Jessie nor Jack corrected the nurse
"His teive him some ibuprofen"
"Is that OK after he had the Tylenol?"
"It’s perfectly fine Both oal, but they work differently Lots of kids have high fevers, and we bring them doith both medications all the time" Teresa stood and waved her hand "Come on, Dad, follow me" Jack followed the nurse with Danny while Jessie followed Jack
Chapter Eleven
The nurse led theed in the oxygen sensor Danny wore on his finger Jack saw the nunificance of it When the nu, which he didn’t think was a good thing At some point, the nurse left the room to find a doctor, and Danny reached for his urney with him She swayed back and forth and spoke softly to Danny, as oing to happen to hiive me a shot? I don’t want a shot"
Jack paced the room
"Let’s not worry about that, buddy," Jessie told her son She glanced over at Jack "Hey, did you notice that Jack gave us a ride in his truck? Cool, huh?"
Danny looked up at hilossy eyes and all