I suspected that Brenda had made the offer of addressing her less formally in case the very word 'doctor' was a stressor for me. She wasn't entirely w...ong.As we were exchanging greetings the other woman in the room also rose from her seat. I'd never seen her before but, judging by the scrubs she was wearing, I concluded that she was a member of Brenda's staff."I'd like to introduce you to Jennifer; she's a Nurse Practioner who is now working with us."I turned toward the nurse and several things. My daughter rose to go to her own room.Susie returned with both her bed pillows, dropped them on one side of me, and laid across me with her hips in my lap and her upper body puffed up on the pillows. She never before cuddled with me like that and, despite my surprise, I left her in her chosen place. Susie's position put me in a dilemma of where to put my right hand, because the only comfortable place for it would be her bottom. That left my one arm wanting and searching, in some kind of limbo.. Talk with one for five minutes and she thinks you’ve fallen in love with her. Another thing I do is spread the word that I’m in serious financial difficulties. If I have to, I can even invent some kind of disease that I need so see the doctor for.’ ‘Do you really have a lot of medical problems?’ ‘Not me. I’m healthy as a horse.’ And so the light conversation went, while Helen washed, dusted, swept, vacuumed, and generally tidied up my house to take away the usual signs of a week of bachelor. “Lizzy nine weeks ago I did not even know you existed, but now, here two months later you are making me the luckiest man in the world. I want to get you home and in bed early tonight as our flight leaves in the morning. I hope you will enjoy this vacation. I think it will also be a learning time for us. How to really make you my baby girl,” you tell me.I just smile at you, put my head on your shoulder and whisper, “Daddy, you make me the happiest girl alive. I can’t believe these last two.