She was supposed to have roused Lisa every two hours. But instead, she’d poked and prodded the patient every few minutes all night long, scared to let her sleep at all. So, Josie wasn’t in the best of moods when Mike showed up at seven that morning.“How’s the patient?”Too exhausted to talk, she pointed him toward Lisa’s room.When he returned, he said, “Go to bed. I’ll watch her now.”He didn’t have to tell her twice. She crawled off to bed to get some real sleep.She woke two hours later, showered, then got dressed for church. While Mike was waking Lisa, the doorbell rang. Josie opened the door to find Officer Fredrickson and his wife, along with Bud and Regina. “Hi, come in.”“I was at Bud’s yesterday when Michael called looking for you,” Regina said. “How’s Lisa?”“I’d be fine if Josie hadn’t kept waking me up all night,” the patient said as she walked out of her room, rubbing sleep from her eyes.“We knew you were at the hospital late. Brought breakfast,”
