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The woht the machine here and did the X-ray with me in bed”

Interesting, as Edith could get up with assistance and had walked out of the clinic of her own free ith a nurse at her side Plus, she’d had to go to the radiology department for the CT of her abdomen They would have taken her by wheelchair, so why the bedside X-ray rather than doing it in Radiology?

There ical reason why they’d done a portable chest X-ray instead of just doing it while she’d been there for her CT scan, McKenzie told herself

“Is there so?” Edith asked

“You’re in the hospital, so obviously everything’s not right,” McKenzie began “It concerns ure out where that blood cas? Then there’s your pain Hoould you rate it currently?”

“My sto McKenzie question if she should have sent the wo

Maybe she’d overreacted when Edith hadthe blood No, that was a new cout instinct saidon here than met the eye Edith didn’t look herself She was paler, weaker

“Does anywhere else hurt?”

“Not really”

“Explain,” she proue

“Nothing that’s worth ”

Which couldwith the elderly woman

“Edith, if there’s anything hurting or bothering you, I need to know so I can have everything checked out before I release you from the hospital I want to ”

McKenzie listened to Edith’s abdorossly abnormal that hadn’t shown on Edith’s CT scan

“I’m fine” The woman patted McKenzie’s hand and any moment McKenzie expected to be called dearie She finished her exaun on the admission when Lance stepped into the room