Word: lucies
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...That nurse, Eileen," I say to Luci. "I think I went to high school with her. I think it's Eileen Ledrew. She once had a date with Mike Larkin. A drive-in date, as I remember...
...should ask her," Luci suggests. But I'm not up for conversation with anyone but Luci or Caroline just...
...change of clothes, honey," says Luci. "Go reassure your...
...concussion." I offer this diagnosis to Luci. "I think she's had her first sports concussion." I tell her that I got one playing football, that my sister Gail got one skiing. Luci hugs Caroline and rocks back and forth on the edge of the bed. The doctor comes to talk with us and confirms that, in the best of all worlds, this is going to be a concussion, nothing more. "There's no internal bleeding, no break in the bones. It's amazing, really, that a professionally hit ball could go that far and hit her square...
...decided that Luci will return to her mother's in Chelmsford to be with Jack and Mary Grace when they awake. I'll stay in the hospital with Caroline. We get our room at 1:15 a.m., and Caroline insists that I share her bed. It's pediatric-sized, with a firm board at the end, so my legs can't hang over; I have to draw them up. For this reason and all the obvious ones, I get no sleep. Caroline sleeps in fits, waking to vomit occasionally (a usual aftershock of concussions), to tinkle, to cry for Mommy...