"It means it might," Lex explained, subconsciously turning his head just slightly to find out if he could see Blue's hand on his shoulder. He couldn't; that was incredibly disappointing, but understandable. He allowed himself to smile anyway. "But yes, that's a<span style="font-style: italic">very</span>good sign."<br/><br/>A pair of remarkably cold hands grabbed his face and turned it forward again. Lex wondered in the back of his mind if he'd been this obtuse and grabby when he was still seeing patients. "Your eyes are still too red for me to really be able to take a look, but it'll take some time for the gas bubbles to tamponade anyway," Dicen murmured as he scrutinized Lex's eyes, because god forbid this didn't work and he just messed up a surgery on his surgical mentor. "I don't see any reason some light would hurt, but absolutely no physical activity until I'm sure that I won't need to go back in with another round of perfluoroethane."<br/><br/>Jenessa smirked, snickering quietly - but not quietly enough that the room's other occupants couldn't hear. When she spoke, she looked at Blue since Lex was unfortunately oblivious to her judging glare. "Oh, too bad," she sang out. She pretended to examine her nails, which could honestly use some work now that she was looking at them. "I mean, recovery takes, what? Weeks?"<br/><br/>"Enough," Dicen warned her again, not deigning her with as much as a turn of his head. "She's right, though. Try to keep your stress level to a minimum. No exercise, no heavy lifting."<br/><br/>"No<span style="font-style: italic">sex</span>," Jenessa added, less than helpfully. Dicen stared at her blankly.<br/><br/>Lex almost asked her why she was so keen about putting a damper on his sex life when it'd literally been nonexistent for the entire six years that he assumed she'd been with Russell. But he didn't, because she was correct. "Nothing to raise my blood pressure. Got it. Am I free to go?"<br/><br/>Before Jenessa could shoot off some other demeaning remark, Dicen clapped Lex on the shoulder. "You're free to go. No restrictions on light, just don't look up at the sun."<br/><br/>"I'll do my best," Lex joked as he reached out to where Blue had stood so she could lead him away. Just as he had hopped from the table and made to leave, he heard Dicen call Jenessa to hang back for a minute, and for some reason the thought of his best friend and his estranged wife that had never met hanging back to talk alone made him vaguely uncomfortable. But he ignored it in favor of wanting to test what he could see so far. "Go on then, let's go stare at the sun."