Chapter 1 Tommy’s Fever
“Come in here, Tommy, let me take your temperature,” said
Margo Edwards to her fifteen year old step-son. Tommy, home from
school because of illness, sidled into his step-mother’s bedroom.
Margo Edwards, a registered nurse, held a rectal thermometer
in one hand and a jar of Vaseline in the other. The boy
gave his step-mother a withering glance because he knew the
procedure all too well. “Take your pants off, Tommy,” said
Margo.
“I’m too old to have it taken that way,” implored Tommy
hopefully.
“Nonsense, we take