9
Gia checked her pad for the third time this morning. Still no blood.
See? Nothing to worry about. Dr. Eagleton had been right.
Relieved, she stepped out of the bathroom and just missed colliding with Vicky who tended to go wherever she was going at a dead run.
"Mom! Can Jessica come over?"
Jessica had been one of the princesses on Halloween. Good kid and not at all high maintenance. But Gia didn't feel up to overseeing two ten-year-olds.
"I'm still feeling kind of pooped, Vicky." Four days since the Big Bleed. She'd have thought she'd be bouncing back by now. "But you can go over there if you like."
Vicky grinned. "I'll call her!" She ran for the phone.
Gia would take advantage of the free time by keeping her feet up and taking it easy. One more day. If nothing else bad happened, she'd get back to a more normal routine tomorrow. Much more of this forced inactivity and she'd be ready for the loony bin.
Jack was stopping by later this morning. It would be good to slip a movie in the disk player and hang out, just the two of them.
The phone rang. It was Jack.
"Hi, hon. Look, I'm going to have to put off my visit."
She hid her disappointment.
"Something come up?"
"Yeah. Sort of."
Something in his tone…
"Anything wrong?"
"Not sure. Talk to you about it later, okay?"
"Okay. Keep in touch."
She hung up and wondered what he was up to.