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“Do you want et you anything and everything you need,Just tell me what”
I close et it I shake ain Why does she think I’?
“I had…the RC surgery…” I stop to get a careful breath “Onside?
??to avoid…” To having to take that fucking stuff again, in a fewhurts e
“You had the surgery sooner to avoid requiring Dilaudid again…so soon after they fixed the gunshot dae?” I watch her perfect Siren face as she realizes fully what I ertip traces ood My eyelids shut
“You didn’t want to recover froain for surgery on your right shoulder that’s been hurting for a while I reet it sorted So you convinced them to do both They fixed up your left side, of course, and then turned right around and did the other surgery on the right shoulder—for the rotator cuff—the day you arrived in Boston froo Is that right? And tiunshot itself…has been ten days”
I nod slowly, and she strokes my hair back off my forehead “Your father told me some of that I’ve missed quite a lot,” she says hoarsely “Now you’re wrapped up like a hastly pain And I think perhaps you’re disappointed over the Dilaudid, even though no doubt you required it to keep fro mad, as you are now Sailor…what must we do with you? Hopelessly stubborn”
I shake h—tobad now Even more so because I feel so shitty Even ery
“It’s not…supposed to be this bad” The words are whispered, half delirious
“What isn’t? The gunshot wound with these two ribs fractured?” She points to where I’m hurt, up near the collar bone “Your father said the bone in back is cracked as well—your scapula I suppose that’s why you can’t take deep breaths I’m sorry for that bit of horrid advice”
I shake my head Don’t be sorry
“Is that supposed to be less painful, or the repaired shoulder on the other side? And I’ve heard that craving what you formerly relied upon daily for years and were re-introduced to in a dire e back off opiates won’t hurt at all…”
My lips crack as they tuck up Such a fucking wise-ass, Siren
“Where the devil is your nurse? Who on earth has been here with you?”
“I had hiot here”