1. "It's down to a little pink and it hurts when I put ointment on it. Which is good, that means it's healing."

2. "A hospital on a holiday weekend is no place to be."

3. Eric gave her "unspecific" suggestions and she would have preferred more concrete examples.

I learned all this because she was talking loudly into her cellphone at the train station. She carried a bag that had on its side plastic windows filled with stills from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.