Alina’s grandmother has a fall in her home, breaking the humerus bone in her left arm, which required hospitalization and then a lengthy stay at a rehabilitation facility.

“Thank you so much for your attention to my grandma,” Alina said to Doctor Stellansson. “You were a great comfort to her and to me.”

“No problem,” Stellansson said. “Your grandmother is quite a woman.”

“I know,” Alina said. “She was pretty out of it at times. Like hallucinating or something.”

“Probably the meds,” the doctor said.

“Maybe, but other times she seemed lucid, and yet...”

“Yes?” Stellansson encouraged.

“When I told her I was moving her out of her house to an assisted living place, she didn’t get angry. She just said to make sure her grandfather clock got moved in okay. She said she had a clock fetish.”

“A clock fetish?” questioned the doctor.

“Uh huh. What exactly is a fetish, anyway?”

Doctor Stellansson explained that a fetish had to do with only being able to have sex successfully if the fetish object was involved.

“But a clock?” Alina said. “And besides, my grandfather died fifteen years ago. I was just ten. I don’t think my grandma has been having sex since then.”

“Maybe she was just remembering those good old days,” the doctor said. “Or maybe she meant cock fetish.”