(Lucas’ POV)
I’m with my father at the moment. We’ve been taking turns with them, which is easier when the others are here, but right now it’s just Tracey and I. So she’s up with my mother while I’m down here in the ICU for the first time-slot of their visitation times.
They only allow fifteen minutes at the top of every hour, starting at eight in the morning and running till eight at night. While the rest of the hospital is from seven-thirty in the morning till nine at night.
My mother is sort of a big-wig here because she not only works here, along with the clinic, but she’s also on the board of trustees. So whatever she wants, she pretty much gets. Which means a room full of visitors is suddenly no big deal. So long as we’re quiet.
ICU can’t be so gracious due to how sickly some of
