Chapter 7: Yours to Keep
It was almost ten o’clock in the evening and the staff at West Reef Hospital gave Brayden special permission to visit me. Nurse Ramon said, “Mr. York likes to flirt with the ladies. He had all of them wrapped around his pinkie finger.”
I had an evening treat of peanut butter and crackers, my IV bottle was changed, and my blood pressure was checked. Thereafter, Nurse Ramon left the room, in search of another patient on the seventh floor of the hospital to administer care. Upon leaving, he said, “Don’t stay up too long. Dr. Fairmont said you can be discharged if you stay on your best behavior.”
“Thank you, Ramon,” I called after him, grinning and excited with his news.
Brayden entered Room 782 shortly after Nurse Ramon left. I was pretty sure the two met somewher
