Chapter 11: Wrong Foot
Tina sat in the hospital cafeteria with her parents, Debra, and a collection of their friends. She tried to nod and smile in the appropriate places as DX filled Hiram in on their heroics of the day before, but it was a struggle to make sense of the words that were being said around her. She appreciated that everyone was there, but she couldn’t really be there with them while more than half of her heart and soul were in the OR with Bonnie.
Her father seemed to sense how she was feeling and reached over to pat her on the shoulder. “How are you holding up?”
Tina shrugged. “I tortured myself earlier today looking up complications of open heart surgery on my phone.”
Her dad grimaced.
“Were Bonnie’s parents outside with another crop of protesters?”
“The coast was cle
