#Chapter 36: He Would Hate This

Aria’s POV After being released from the hospital, I decided that Cathy was right. My stress levels were dangerous to both me and the baby. For both our sakes, I needed to take some time to balance myself out before something worse happened. So I returned to Cathy’s house, put away my doctor costume, and as Aria, settled in to treat myself for a week or two. I wore my pajamas all day and watched far too much television, though I still made time to eat three meals and exercise daily. While binging all the soap operas I could manage, I tried my very best to avoid all news channels. To keep my stress low, I needed to avoid all news entirely. Cathy and I had even worked out a system where she would take the newspaper straight from the stoop to work with her, so I never saw it. This worked for about two days. But in my solitude, my worries for my patients, including Caleb, started eating away at me. His health was deteriorating but I felt confident he would hold out another week whi