Chapter 31

“Thank you, Doc, I appreciate your time and your candor.”

“I think you should go home now and get some sleep.”

“That’s what the nurse in the ICU told me, and I intend to do just that. I won’t have any trouble getting back into the hospital this evening, will I?”

“Not a bit. You can walk right in the main entrance, and when you get upstairs to the ICU, your name is on all the lists. Chris saw to that.”

“Thank you.”

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NAS Jacksonville, FL

SCOOTER’S INFORMATION ABOUT Dr. Fisk had upset Chris, and the news that he would be under a scalpel wielded by Dr. Shively upset him even more. He’d come within an inch of calling the whole thing off until Dr. Fisk was again available, but decided not to do so. I psyched myself up for this once, he thought.There’s no way in hell I’m going to go through that againBesides, Mickey came all this way just to be with me, and it wouldn’t be fair to him. So he resigned himself to going through with it.