" groggily I went to sit up. How hard had I collapsed?! My head was pounding."Jayden, sweetie, we have to get you to the hospital!" I knew that was my...mother but I didn't know why she sounded so alarmed.For the brief moment I tore my gaze from my mother's huge udders, I saw my sister, tears falling heavily from her eyes. Even in my confused state that was a sobering sight. I couldn't remember how it was that I had come to feint but I felt hungry... so freakin' hungry!It was all a blur as, who I. Now, maybe, they would be able to able to relax… some. Oh, there’d be more work, she knew. That wouldn’t stop. Soon, she’d have to think about a successor product. But for now she could go back to working sensible hours. ‘How about you, Denise?’ she asked. Denise looked at her, unable to fathom her meaning. ‘I mean, will you be able to cut back to normal hours, now?’ ‘Oh, I wondered what you were thinking about. I expect so, but there’ll always be the last minute calls, and the teleconferences.. After she finished that, the fusion generator would be next. She had already reconstructed all of her research from memory. Production difficulties were all that stood in her way.When we went to bed that night the girls surprised me by wanting to talk about something other than their projects. They wanted to talk wedding and I groaned inwardly. While I was looking forward to the actual event, I wanted nothing to do with the planning. I figured our mother and Lucy would want to do most of it. I'd done everything I could to find a job, but in a college town with more students than townies, jobs didn't grow on trees, and this was a slow time for the economy. What jobs were available were impossible for me with my lupus. Yeah, I know, almost all the people with lupus are female, but that just makes it harder on guys like me. For those that don't know, lupus is an autoimmune disease, sort of the opposite of AIDS where the immune system begins to attack itself. That results in.