On Saturday Joyce stayed at home and spent the day with Stephanie.
She could see that Stephanie's condition was getting worse and worse. She had lost more than ten pounds again. There was chest fluid in her lungs and she kept coughing all day long.
Jamie came every morning to give Stephanie nutritional fluids and the pain killer.
Joyce also learned from Jamie how to give injections.
Because Stephanie now needed pain relief on a regular basis and she would have to be very careful with the injection.
She learned that she could help more or less. In the evenings, it was she who gave Grandma her shots.
Every time when she looked at Stephanie's increasingly pale face, Joyce also understood that her grandmother would not have much time with her now.
The bond that had been built over these days made them almost a real family, and she could understand why Luther cared so much about Stephanie.
to put her work on hold so that she could
Late afternoon on Sunday.
back
that usually lasts well into the night, and now her waking hours
with a wool blanket. She was
movement of Luther's return, she woke up, opened her eyes, glanced
and you can see her later." She closed her eyes and said in a
something." Luther stepped forward and lifted the wool blanket
scratched her hair, apparently annoyed, "Where’s your manner? How do you know if I'm fully clothed
it matter? Which part of you have I not seen? Take it, it's for you." Luther’s thin lips
day?" She was exasperated, but there was nothing she could
at her hand, the black wooden box he tossed over,
Luther sat down on the other sofa and looked at her patiently. He had gone out on a special trip today
wooden box and could find