With a puff of breath, Maeve pulled herself together quickly. “We’ll figure this out. We have some long-term care insurance. I can’t come home permanently. We can’t afford for me to retire right now. But we’ve been paying those insurance people money for years. They can send a professional to sit with him while I’m gone, make sure he’s safe.”
“Of course they can.” Not sure at all what long-term care insurance did or didn’t do, Carri quickly made a mental note to look it up, and see if she could help. “I’m guessing you need an official diagnosis first, right?”
“We were still in the testing stage with his neurologist, but I think this should seal the deal on that front. He should be released from the ICU tomorrow afternoon.” Suddenly, Maeve threw her arms around Carri’s shoulders. “I’m just so glad you came.”
Carri patted her mother’s back and decided to not think what it meant that her mother had doubted their only child would come home when her father was in critical condition in the hospital.
It wasn’t flattering, that was for sure.
Jeanette Murray is the author of the Santa Fe Bobcats series, including One Night with a Quarterback, Loving Him off the Field and Takes Two to Tackle. She spends her days surrounded by hunky alpha men . . . at least in her imagination. In real life, she’s a wife and a mother, keeping tabs on her husband, her daughter and the family dog on the outskirts of St. Louis. Find her online at jeanettemurray.com and facebook.com/jeanettemurraybooks.