" Thomas said decisively. "We'd like the oysters on the halfshell to start with, and some chilled white wine…. Australian Chardonnay." Yes, sir." An...d he was gone. Being seen in such a position mortified Sophie."What's wrong with you Sophie?" Thomas asked impatiently."He saw everything Thomas…how could you?" For God's sake Sophie! He's seen far worse I'm sure. Do you realise you havejust addressed me incorrectly?" His foot squirmed hard against her and she gavea little gasp of pain, closing her. Mom kicked off her shoes. She put her thumbs in the waistband of her skirt and lowered it for me. She went slowly looking at my face the whole time. When it got past the fullness of her thighs it fell to the floor. Mom kicked it toward her chair too. Then mom really smiled for the first time in days, she hooked her thumbs in the waistband of her panties, and lowered them for me too.Mom stood there naked and said, “Well! What do you think?”I struggled to say, “Not bad!”Mom said, “Why thank you,. “Certainly, remember that if we run out of anything, I’ll be the one who gets a chewing out, all right!”“Yes Sir, I understand,” she said, adding a big smile.I went back to my work.She got up and went to the supplies cabinet, looking for something, getting out the Dymo gun. She put her school stuff away, and proceeded to make some Dymo labels. I figured out what she was doing. I should have thought of it myself, but she took the mundane project and turned it into something to help us all.When. Whenit started a few months later I was again taken back to see the doctorand this time he prescribed some tablets and he explained "that therenal passage was a difficult place for a wound to heal, perhaps the cuthad been infected", and we were told "not to worry, it would take timeto heal".On the third visit to the doctor he referred me to a specialist, thefirst specialist then referred me to a long list of various medicalspecialists. Over a number of months I went through some bizarre.