After a pause, Liz laughed, pinching her side and felt a twitch, remembering how it had also twitched the day after the party in Bette and Tina’s.  "You know Tina, every time I get some exercise now, and feel a twitch, I can’t help but remember the morning-after effects of your party," laughing slightly.

"Frankly, I was hoping you were going to throw a New Year’s Eve one, too" she added, with a smile.

Tina shook her head, "Well… we stayed back in Davos, instead of flying back day before New Year’s Eve as we’d planned, because Bette was down with a fever…"

Liz cut in, "Oh, I didn’t know that! How is she?"

"Don’t worry, Liz, she’s better.  I think it was just a combination of exhaustion, since she’d been working hard on a couple of things since we got back from our "mini-moon".. and you know how hard she pushes herself … Then she caught a bad cold … and she may have picked up a bug someplace, too.  Anyway, everything combined into a fever," Tina explained briefly.

Liz shook her head, "Ahhh, Bette… you’ve got to get your wife to slow down, Tina. And do encourage her to check-in with Gina soon. She’s still seeing that heart specialist?"

"I’m trying to get her to take things slowly," Tina answered, reflectively, "but you’re right, she should see Gina.  And, yeah, she’s still seeing the heart specialist, but she hasn’t kept me up to date on all that, come to think of it…"

"Hmmm….," Liz responded, noncommittally, while rapidly reviewing Tina’s file. She clapped her hands.

"So…."

"Speaking of checking in," Tina started, "I just wanted to check-in with you… see if we’re good…"

"Well… the tests show you’re in general, even excellent, health, Tina," Liz answered, pausing to re-look at the blood test results, and the BP, weight, and other indicators the nurse had jotted down.

"So — good for….?"

"Ummm… just in case we decide to try for another baby," Tina said quietly.

"Wow! Really?," Liz fairly shouted, jumping up excitedly.

"Calm down, Liz," Tina laughed.  Now this was the exuberant doctor that she and Bette knew. "We just had a passing conversation about it over the weekend… we haven’t thought things through, yet.  But I thought it would be a good idea to check in, as I said."