Barb laughed, “And carry a bag of pee with me?  That sure would make me look sexy.”

Marge started laughing, then was able to compose herself, “Just picture this, a group of guys and gals sitting around a table drinking.  All have rubber hoses that go to a can under the table.  The waitress brings the drinks and empties the can when it gets full.”

They all laughed then Barb got pensive, “I wonder how it feels for a guy. The nurse said it only goes in a girl a couple of inches, imagine a guy, it has to be uncomfortable.”

“Maybe we should carry one.  If a guy wants to put something in us we ask to put something in him first. I bet that would turn him off.”

“Not some guys I have seen,” Marge said, “I know of one that would ask you to get a bigger one.”

The discussion changed to girl talk for a while.

Just before two thirty the nurse came in and announced, “Roll over girls.”

Penny was the first to ask, “What?”

“Roll over, on your stomachs for a while.”

“Why?” Barb asked, she was well endowed and was not totally comfortable on her stomach.

Because we need to keep the muscle in the front of your stump from contracting and pulling it up, you would look really funny with it sticking out straight to the front.”

She helped them turn in bed with their heads at the foot of the bed and roll to their stomachs.

“For how long?” Margie asked?

“An hour should do it,” she said.  She went out, got three extra pillows and came back, “Here, see if this helps,” she threw one to each of them.  Barb placed it under her upper torso taking some of the weigh off her breasts.

“That is better.  Thanks.”

When the nurse left, Marge started laughing, “Imagine it sticking out to the front.  Some guys might have a leg cut off to have something that big sticking out there.”

Penny wrinkled her face, “Is that all you think of, guys with big ones?”

“Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

Barb shook her head.  “Remember what the doctor said, when you have pain sex sometimes helps.”

Penny started to say something but cut it off.

While they were on their stomachs two of the detectives came in to visit.  Actually it was an interrogation about the shooting.  Like their partners they told of the single shot, the realization they had been hit and the trip to the hospital that followed.

“Didn’t you see anything, anything unusual before?”

One and all they answered, “No.”

After an unproductive time the men left.

The evening was spent with members of the force and their families.  Walter Altland came in for a few minutes to see them.  From him they learned about the incident with Jeff Zirkle.  The night was long, the pain seemed to wane in the day when they were active and come back with a vengeance at night.  There were shots for pain, none of them really slept.  All had wild dreams of being shot.  Barb woke up twice sobbing.

The Night Sniper Chapter One: On the Beat

The Night Sniper – Ch. 010 Another Doctor Visits the Three Women

The Night Sniper: Ch. 012 the Fourth Day