It's not all sexy. But sometimes, just sometimes you smile and walk with a swagger.
Patient S. Abdominal pain. 26. F.
Post surgery, she was doing well. But we had to monitor for the next two days. I was on call in the post-op ward. I was just doing my obs after meal time. This room housed four patients. Miss S was just finishing her meal as I consulted her chart. Usual greetings. She leaned over, squirted some hand sanitiser and rubbed her hands together.
"No, no, no." I said. "You must wash your hands properly. Come over to the hand-wash basin and I'll show you."
She looked a little perplexed, nodded. Pulled the sheet back and flung her legs out of the bed. The bright red nails of her toes and slender legs drawing my attention. She stood up. Her night wear a thin cotton nightie barely covering the tops of her thighs, little yellow flowers dotting it. Perky breasts holding out the nightie allowing it to cascade over her figure. She was short, maybe 5'2" with long brown hair to her shoulder blades. I had to will myself to look at her face. She was pretty. Giving me a cute smile, eyes inquiring, lovely blue-grey eyes.
She moved to the basin. I stood beside and slightly behind her.
"First the soap, rub it all over your hands, between your fingers, wrists, everywhere." I said as she proceeding to rub the greenish liquid over her petite hands.
"Here, like this." I moved behind her and placed my hands on hers.
There is something special about when hands touch. No, not a handshake kind of touch, but that touch of fingers touching fingers, hand on top of hand. As though it is a personal caress of the heart. As my hands touched hers, as I reached around from behind her, she felt it too. Her head turned looking up at me with those wide eyes, her mouth slightly agape.
"Let me help you." I said as my fingers slide between hers. She spread her fingers apart allowing me intimate access to her hands. Her skin was so soft and my own hands dwarfed hers. As I stroked her hands, gently turning her hand palm up, my hands sliding over her palms, between her fingers once more. I heard her inhale. I felt her body relax. I moved a little closer, my head lowered to just beside her. I could smell her hair.
"Just like this." I said in almost a whisper. "Back and forth. Getting between those fingers." As I spoke I felt her body press softly back into me, her neck turned ever so slightly as if an invitation.