He suddenly missed his younger brothers. What should have been a cyst was now something that might kill him. He wanted to go home. They were having family in for Thanksgiving. There were Christmas gifts to buy the other two boys.
Hospitals are strange, contradictory places.
In the surgical wing at Children's, sick kids on gurneys, hidden in a nest of tubes, are wheeled past wallpaper dressed in clowns and balloons. Nurses came in and out, friends of Jan's, people so familiar with this sort of anxiety in families yet this time so unable to deal with it. They wished Matt well. They did their best to be cheerful. Jan's best friend, Robin Lambert, stopped by.