heart strings

106

When we land in London we go immediately to the hotel.

Dominic carried up our stuff. When we got to our room I did what I always do and plopped on the bed.

But before Dominic could lay beside me there was a knock at our door. Dominic answered it and it was Dimitri and Lynn.

"How you feeling?"

"I don't feel like I'm going to vomit but my stomach is still upset."

I looked at Dominic and I could totally read his face.

"Let me Google an urgent care place."

We went downstairs and caught a cab to the closest urgent Care place I found.

When we get there, there was a couple people waiting. I signed in and sat back down with Dominic.

He really hasn't said much since we landed.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm just trying not to overthink this. Like last time."

"And I appreciate that because I've been trying to do the same thing."

He puts him arm around my shoulders.

"Well I'm glad I'm not the only one."

I feel his lips on my temple.

"October Kinkaid."

Dominic and I stand up going to the back. An older gentleman came into the room.

"Hello I'm Dr. Whisher, what seems to be the problem today?"

"I was fine this morning then a couple hours into our plane ride I broke out into a cold sweat then threw up."

"Are you pregnant?"

"I'm not sure."

"Ok well let's run a pregnancy test first and if that comes back negative I might already know what's wrong."

A nurse comes in handing me a small plastic cup. I go into the bathroom with it and I can't help but think how gender biased these stupid things are.

Especially as small as this cup is!

It's like a damn shot glass. Women in London must not pee a lot.

I need coffee.

I go into the room handing the nurse my pee.

Few minutes later the doctor came back in. I noticed Dominic squeezing my hand a little tighter.

"Ok your test came back negative."

Of course it did.

"I think you just got motion sick."

"Never happened before."

"In some cases it comes and goes. I had one patient, a pilot flying for thirty years! One day he was just like you."

"What can I do for this. My husband's here on tour. So we're gonna be flying all over Europe then Australia."

"Oh shit you're Dominic Kinkaid!"

I start laughing.

"My wife and I got tickets for your show tomorrow night."

"I tell you what I'll get you backstage passes if you can fix this."

He grabs a note pad writing stuff done.

"Here you go. It's a prescription for motion sickness. Take one an hour before your flight."

"Thank you!"