Chapter 56

“Hardly that. I don’t consider that to be even a remote possibility.”

“I won’t argue with you now,” I said. “This isn’t the time or the place.”

“But you will argue about it later, right?”

“You know I will.”

“Let’s just get on with it before I change my mind,” he said.

“Dani! Attitude… please….”

“Sorry.”

“Dr. Rosati wants me to use a vein in his neck,” the nephrologist said.

“So I can still use the baths,” Dani said, before I could ask the obvious question. “When we sit on the bench in the calidarium, the water won’t quite touch the incision.

It didn’t take long for the catheter to be inserted, and despite the many procedures of various kinds that I had done and/or witnessed over the years, it wasn’t easy to witness it being done to Dani. When he was finally hooked up to the machine, we both gave a sigh of relief.

“How’re you doing, champ?” I said.

“Been better, been worse.”