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“How’s my favorite patient?” he asked

“Stable,” Kelly infor into nurse mode “Her last vitals were excellent”

Dr Graviss pulled up Liz’s electronic chart and glanced over the information Kelly had entered earlier When he’d finished, he turned and shook his head “I was pleased to get Kelly’s call this ave us quite a scare”

“I gave myself quite a scare,” Liz admitted

“You’re banged up but, other than a few scars here and there, you should heal well” His gaze dropped to where her right ankle was propped “Except for the fractures”

Liz looked at her bandaged leg “How bad are the breaks?”

“Your distal tibia is going to have to be pinned together Dr Bell will be by this evening I suspect he’ll schedule surgical correction within a couple of days if you’re agreeable”

“What about nancy?”

Kelly and Mona exchanged looks, but neither appeared surprised More as if fro for her to tell them She’d wanted to tell Adam first

Dr Graviss looked nonplussed “Best I can tell, no har the crash It’s fortunate that you’re not far along as your body cushioned the ilanced suspiciously at Mona and Kelly then his gazeif they’d told her “You knew?”

Her friends definitely had been waiting for her to say so They must have wondered if she’d even known since she’d not told them

“I knew” She started to nod, caught her breath at the intense pain that shot through her at the movement, and spoke instead “I saw an obstetrician yesterday”

Had it really only been yesterday afternoon that she’d gone to Dr Saunders? That felt like a lifetio

“I’ll get an ultrasound ordered I ran thewas the baby’s status”

“Everything looked normal?” Her hand still rested over her belly and she ers protectively