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moved to the new program.Any way you can take
a look at it? I’m unable to access them.
Despite her better judgment, she’d stopped by the office Thursday while she’d been in Reno, shopping with Nana, and had transferred the data Lewis had asked her to move from one program to another. He really was an idiot when it came to anything technical.Glitch. Ha. He just didn’t know how to properly use the software.
She didn’t need a psychologist to tell her she was a facilitator. Part of the reason she’d left Lewis was because she no longer wanted to be his handmaiden. And here she was divorced and still at his beck and call. It needed to end. She just didn’t know how to stop being needed. That was the crux of the problem. She measured her self-worth by how much someone relied on her.
Slipping the phone back into her purse, she watched the clock and waited. At nearly eight o’clock a nurse came to the waiting room to get her.
“Dr. Lee will talk to you now.”
When she got to the examination room, Hilde seemed to have some of her color back, which Darcy took as a good sign.
“I’ve adjusted your grandmother’s blood-pressure medication and prescribed a diuretic I think will do the trick,” Dr. Lee said. “Otherwise, Mrs. Wallace’s tests came back normal. There are a few results we’re still waiting on from the lab but those will take a couple of days. By then we should know if she’s feeling better from the changes in her meds.”
“She was having trouble breathing.” As relieved as Darcy was she wanted to make sure they weren’t missing anything.
Dr. Lee nodded and smiled at Hilde. “Mrs. Wallace told me. That as well as the lightheadedness and fatigue could be from the hypertension. It’s a bit of a balancing act in someone your grandmother’s age. We want to get her systolic pressure down without driving her diastolic pressure too low.”
She’d lost Darcy. “And the adjustment in her medication will do that?”
“That’s what we’re hoping. I want her to see her regular physician but in the meantime the medication should give her some relief. She should watch her diet and exercise, even if it’s just walking around in her garden.” Dr. Lee glanced at Hilde. “Right, Mrs. Wallace?”
Hilde nodded and gave Darcy a reassuring wink.
“We can go home?” Darcy asked the doctor.
“You can go home. Make sure she gets plenty of fluids, especially in this heat.”
Darcy helped her grandmother button her blouse and pull the elastic waist of her khakis up and they made the twenty-minute drive home.
“Are you hungry, Nana?”
“I think we should skip dinner and have banana splits. What do you say?”
“Probably not the best idea. Remember what the doctor said about diet.” Darcy helped her grandmother out of the car. “How about soup?”
“You’re no fun.”
“Maybe not.” She laughed and together they walked into the house. Nana was sprier than when they’d come out and Darcy said a little prayer of thanks for the swift turnaround. “But if it’ll keep you healthy I’m willing to be a frightful bore.”
Hilde stopped in the kitchen and turned to Darcy. “You know, dear, I won’t live forever.”
“Don’t say that, Nana.” Because the thought of her grandmother leaving this earth was too much to take.
* * *
“Hey, I cruised by Hilde’s house last night to see if you wanted to go park somewhere and make out but the both of you were gone,” Win said, leaning against GA’s front counter.
“Shush.” Darcy darted a look around the hallway to make sure no one was lurking in a corner. It was early but TJ usually beat everyone in in the morning and he had big ears. “We had a small emergency and I had to take Nana to the hospital.”
Win went still. “Is she okay?”
“It was her blood pressure. But the doctor adjusted her medication and she’s doing a lot better.” Hilde had been in the kitchen making coffee before Darcy left for work, looking her old self again.
“I’m glad to hear it. Why didn’t you call me?”
She lifted her shoulders, trying to appear nonchalant. “I had it under control.”
