Very carefully, while avoiding the tube inserted in her arm, I put my arms around Petra as carefully as I could and held her close. I inhaled deeply and smelled her skin. She always had this wonderful scent. I kissed her neck several times.
Petra moaned a little bit and then whispered in my ear, 'Don’t make me horny in the hospital. That’s probably against Finnish law.'
At that time a doctor entered the room and introduced himself in English to me as I had met several doctors through the course of several days, but not this one.
I stepped away from the bed as he began to examine Petra. A few moments later a nurse came into the room and the doctor instructed her to increase the amount of fluid the tube in her arm was feeding her. I assumed the doctor thought Petra might be slightly dehydrated.
After he talked to Petra in the Finnish language for a few minutes he came over to me. He escorted me outside the room so Petra could not hear.
'She needs rest before she can do anything. We want to keep her here and then see if she is strong enough to go home,' the doctor said to me in absolutely perfect English.
I shook his hand firmly and asked, 'Thank you doctor. When will Petra be allowed to go home?'
'We need to do some tests and if those are good she can go home in one or two days or perhaps tomorrow afternoon.'
Petra’s mother approached me and the doctor. She asked the doctor a few questions in the Finnish language. He shook her hand after the questions were answered and then left.
'Robert, I have taken some time away from work. I would like to help you both,' she said to me.
I raised my right hand with three fingers showing.
'There are three of us in our family Anna. There is Petra, myself, and little Anna.
'Yes, I am sorry, all three of you.'
'Anna, can you show me how to change a diaper?'
Anna laughed, 'I have been out of practice for a while, but I am sure I can remember.'
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