Chapter 37
West Bumfuck, AR
WHEN THEY WERE alone in the car, Chris said, “Now I know how Alice felt when she was falling down the rabbit hole.”
“The whole situation is bizarre, babe, but we’ll take it one day at a time and deal with it. Should we hang around here until your mother dies?”
“There’s no way to know how long that will be. I know one thing—I want to be in the hospital tomorrow morning, so I can talk to her doctor before he makes his rounds.”
“And how do you know when he does that?” Mickey said.
“I don’t, but I’ll bet someone on that floor can tell me. Let’s stop by and see, okay?”
“Why not? Our dance cards are empty at the moment.”
Chris drove to the hospital and went to his mother’s floor. At the nurse’s station, he identified himself and asked when the doctor usually m
