"I can do that." She gives him a quick kiss. "Be right back."

Joan is only gone for a couple minutes. She returns with a wheelchair and a nurse trailing her.

"I hear you need to get out of bed to use the bathroom," the nurse says. "I can help you with that."

Joan gives him a little shrug. "She insisted." It's almost certainly a good thing to have the extra help, though, and Joan knows all too well how dangerous falls can be when people are weak or injured.