rosewriter
He showed me the diagram, but my mind was elsewhere. It was stuck on heart valve something, something. A long word, meaningless to me. Which is why he had taken out the diagram. I needed a "visual" he had said. He also told me not to worry. I was trying not to worry, and thinking about what the something-something word was. The kids would want to know and when I'd tell them it was something-something, I think it started with a "S" the tisk-tisk of their voice would come though loud and clear.