“That one,” Leo breathed, tapping the screen. “Right there.”
That’s when Leo saw it. On Ben’s tablet, which was propped against the IV pole, a strange application was open. It wasn’t the usual clinical scheduling software. It looked like a topographical map. A faint, pulsing blue glow traced the inside of an arm— his arm. iv-navigator download
He didn’t use it to replace the nurses. He used it to help them. The next week, when a panicked intern couldn’t find a line on a crying child in the bed next to him, Leo held up his phone. “That one,” Leo breathed, tapping the screen
“It looks like a vein map. Of my arm.” It wasn’t the usual clinical scheduling software
It was a secret passage.
“You have ‘adventurous’ vessels,” the nurses would say with a pitying smile. Leo hated that word. Adventurous. His veins weren’t on a hike; they were hiding.