It's Tuesday morning and I have surgeries scheduled all morning so I won't make it to Arizona's therapy session today but I left instructions with David for what I want him to do. I just hope he doesn't let her over do anything. I know I keep harping on it but I worked with enough vets to know that if any physical set backs happen it hurts them mentally twice as bad.
I head down to the third floor coffee cart to grab a cup and a muffin before my next surgery and I'm surprised to see Barbara sitting at a table by the window knitting, So I walk over to say hi and see if everything is ok.
"Hi Barbara, I didn't expect to see you today. Is everything ok?" I ask.
"Oh, hi Callie. How are you?" She asks
" I'm good just between surgeries. Why are you still here didn't Arizona's therapy end like an hour ago." I ask as I look at my watch.
"Yeah, but Bailey wanted to do a quick check up afterwards, so I just came down here to wait for her. She said it shouldn't be that long. Do you have time to sit and keep an old lady company" she asks me.
"Sure I have about a half hour before I have to scrub in." I tell her and sit down.
"I've missed our little talks while Arizona was in the hospital" she tells me.
"Me too, me too." I say.
After a few minutes of silence Barbara asks "So what's this dance party that Sofia keeps telling us about?"
"Ha,ha, ...yeah she's really excited about it. When Arizona or I would have a bad day when we got home the three of us would move the furniture out of the way and just bounce around the living room until we felt better. I still do it with her but I don't think it's the same thing for her." I explain.
"Arizona doesn't dance with her anymore" she asks.
"No she does but I don't think as much as she use too, you know before she lost the leg." I say. " I think it's just hard for her. The prosthetic she had was good but to dance around after working all day was hard on her."
"So this new one she has it will let her do that." She ask me.
"Yep, and she should be able to jog like she use to too." I say.
"How about those damn wheelies" Barbara says with a chuckle.
"With practice yes even the wheelies but I told her I would not be held responsible if she breaks her other leg." I say laughing.
"Wow, that really is amazing. No wonder she is pushing so hard to get better." Barbara says.
"What do you mean?...She's following the PT schedule right" I question.
"Oh of course she is you know her."
"Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of" I say with a chuckle.
"You two seem to be in a better place than when we arrived" Barbara says to me.
"Yeah I think we are. I've been giving a lot of thought to what we've talked about and some of what you said was true. I think when we got back together last time I hadn't really forgiven her and I was just waiting for her to screw up, so we were always on edge with each other." I say.
"And now, what's different" she asks me.
"We've talked, like really talked without the other getting defensive and I think we both see the mistakes we made. We tried to be the same people we were but we weren't those people anymore and we didn't know how to deal with that" I tell her.
"So the people you are now how does that fit into what you want?" she asks me.
"I think it's starting to fit really well" I say smiling at her knowing she will understand." Do you think it fits for Arizona?"
"Like a glove Callie, like a glove" she says smiling back at me.
Just then my pager goes off telling me I have to go scrub in. I get up to leave and see Arizona stepping off the elevator so I wait a minute for her to walk over to us. I know I'm staring at her but I can't help it she really is amazing. She has survived so much. Some people would have given up but she fought back after her lowest point and has become an even more amazing person than she was before all this happened to us.
"Hi Callie, how are you?" I hear her ask.
"What, oh I'm good." I stutter out. "How it go with Bailey?"
"Good, everything is fine. I should be getting the stitches out by Monday but I would avoid her if I was you." She says.
"Why, what did I do?" I ask.
"Somehow she found out about our extra therapy sessions and let's just say she was not to happy." Arizona tells me laughing.
"This isn't funny Arizona. You get to leave but I have to be here all day with her." I say. "how am I suppose to avoid her, we have a board meeting later today."
"Better hope you get paged to an emergency surgery then." She says still giggling.
My pager goes off again and I really have to leave now. "You guys are picking up Sofia right." I ask as I start to walk away.
"Yeah, you will pick her up tonight at my place" Arizona asks.
"Yeah I should be there around 7, I'll text you if I get delayed."
"Ok, bye have a good day" she says to me.
Bye Barbara, see you later." I say as I step into the elevator. Barbara just gives me a smile and a wave.