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“Are you still short of breath?”
The man nodded “Not as badly as at the house My wife says I had a panic attack”
“Your oxygen saturation is ninety-two percent That’s not too bad,” Dirk explained “But it’s not as high as it should be in an otherwise healthy person either I’ to order a few tests just to check you out and make sure you haven’t fractured any ribs or worse”
“Worse?”
“Fall injuries can result in serious dae to a person’s body”
TheI don’t know”
As always, Dirk responded to his patient,Abby wonder how he could ser and not his own kin “Maybe you should stay off ladders for a while, too Ask so”
“Tell that to htened before the kids and grandkids show up in thefor Christmas celebrations”
Finishing what she was doing, Abby excused herself and disappeared out of the bay
Thereport, she rushed away, deterical day of the year
Her favorite day of the year
His least favorite day of the year
A day she’d spend alone yet again
Christency rooone, so technically Christ had arrived
The only thing Dirk liked about Christmas was it meant the end was near The end of the season, the decorations, the sravation and harassment from family