I fumbled the bed railing down while he spoke and pulled the oxygen sensor off my finger.

I grabbed the bed railing at the head of the bed, took a deep breath, and looked around.

Relieved but still concerned, Laura pulled her hand back, letting it wrap around the bed railing instead.

I leaned over the bed railing to put my left ear close to his lips.

Reaching over the bed railing, Julie took one of Frank's hands.

Maybe he would have come apart at a joint, just as the bed railing had done.

They stood in silence, staring at the mountings from which the bed railing had been torn.

You didn't leave me there with the bed railing.

He stepped closer to the bed and rested his arm on the bed railing.

With one hand on a bed railing whose paint has mostly peeled away, the child wears the bleak look of someone many years older.