" I'm not sure. I think I need to give Kristen a call." No problem, Jim. We'll have plenty enough for leftovers, so you and even Kristen won't be a bo...her." Let me call her first." Is there something wrong between the two of you?" Mom asked.I shook my head. "Kris needed to spend some private time without me, and I haven't been coming over as much as I want. I miss my sister, the house..." Sister?" Mom asked, surprised. Just like Lynette and Merry, my mother noticed the wording change as well.. “In Houston, dad you said in Houston ?” “I would say no to this, but I know Bert Hill, he is a good man, got a daughter, your best friend, so I know he will take good care of you, not let anything happen to you, in fact he said he was going to see that you had a room next to his, I know your mother and I will sleep better knowing he is right there with you.” I looked at mother; she was standing behind dad in the kitchen. She had that look; she had it written. We came to other side of the large room and took a short left to the back corner office, which I assumed was Jon's office. I was right, but at the office door was another secretary, his personal secretary, that stopped Trish from walking into the office and said, "Just hang on, he's with someone, you'll have to wait". I could still sense that the eyes of every guy in the office were still firmly planted on Trish's nakedness, as we simply stood there and started our wait for Jon to let us in.. There were six separate therapies that were attempted, four of them involving injections of one kind or another. Of the other two, one involved a subcutaneous implant procedure and the other featured an experimental process involving oral ingestion, over a six-day period, of a chemical cocktail which no doubt included derivatives of his unborn child's amniotic fluid.Each procedure was, serially, given a few days to show some indication that it was effecting an improvement in Ray's.