“Good for you. We’ll miss him, of course, but he has, I think, a genuine calling for nursing, so the sooner he finishes school, the better.”
She made some notes in the chart and said to Charles, “That’s it, young man. As soon as John comes back with a wheelchair, you can leave.”
John appeared shortly, pushing a wheelchair ahead of him. There was a stack of paperwork in the seat of the chair, and I said, “It just hit me, we’ll need a wheelchair at home for a while. Why didn’t I think of that?”
“Just call one of the medical supply companies,” John said. “They’ll deliver whatever you need.”
“Do we take these crutches with us?”
“You’d better, because the hospital is going to charge you through the nose for them whether you take them or not.”
I TOOK MY CELL phone out, dialed information,
