A Little Love Story
“She put her arms through the holes in the vest and pressed the Velcro straps together and did her half-hour of chest PT, spitting mucus into a little bowl, her body shaking and her mouth twisting down, as if she were a kid on a funhouse ride she was tired of. While she did that I wandered around the room. I’d been there a few times, but had never really looked at the pictures—Janet in a soccer uniform, her tough-looking dad in work overalls, her mother beside a small new car. She sucked on her ...inhaler, popped a pile of pills into her mouth, had a hit of oxygen, and we went to bed. In her small bed, with the lights out, she rolled over against me. Her breaths were short strips of wet cloth being torn out of her, one by one.“I’m taking a week off to see if I can get back some strength,” she said quietly near my ear.“Good.”“I’ve moved up three slots on the transplant list.”“Double good.”For a few minutes I listened to the traffic on Beacon Street and to the building’s old pipes knocking.MoreLess
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