[Immediately stopping then. If Don can't tolerate it, then Robert will just have to be careful.]
... A-Alright. I apologize; I will simply use caution in cleaning you. But... p-please try not to move that arm too much, for now...
[He knows it's a basically useless thing to say. Don wasn't exactly doing much moving before.
Robert abandons the sling on the side table and instead turns to the cleaning solution. Taking a sterile cloth pad, he soaks it in the solution and very carefully goes to wash one of the worst cuts, waiting for any kind of indication from Don as to whether it stings or whether he should be more gentle... or anything. All the while he is trying to be as soothing as possible.]
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... A-Alright. I apologize; I will simply use caution in cleaning you. But... p-please try not to move that arm too much, for now...
[He knows it's a basically useless thing to say. Don wasn't exactly doing much moving before.
Robert abandons the sling on the side table and instead turns to the cleaning solution. Taking a sterile cloth pad, he soaks it in the solution and very carefully goes to wash one of the worst cuts, waiting for any kind of indication from Don as to whether it stings or whether he should be more gentle... or anything. All the while he is trying to be as soothing as possible.]