Karen Harris is a young woman who narrowly escapes death on the freeway. She recovers and begins to rebuild her career when she comes face to face with a reality. Unless she takes decisive action her life will be cut short.
Monday morning Karen got up, showered and dressed. As she put her arm into the sling she noticed the tips of her fingers were getting dark. Under any other circumstances this would be a really bad sign. She called the doctor’s office, told them she was concerned about her arm and asked for an appointment. The receptionist at first put her off but when she said her fingers were getting dark she was told they could work her in at ten thirty.
She didn’t eat breakfast and got all of her things into the trunk of the car by nine thirty then checked that everything in the house was turned off and picked up.
Karen was at the doctor’s at ten fifteen. The girl told her the doctor was running about a half hour late. She took out her MP3 and book and sat down in the waiting room. At just after eleven the nurse came to take her back to the room. She sat down and asked what was happening. Karen pulled the sling back and exposed her hand. The woman took one look, got up and went out. The doctor came back with her in less than three minutes. He took one look and started pulling back the sling. When it was off he saw the wire. “Who did that to you?”
“I did.”
He felt over her arm. “Young lady. Your arm has no circulation. Unless we restore it immediately we may have to remove your arm.”
“I understand that. But doctor, tell me, that arm has been without any circulation since three on Friday afternoon. Do you really think if you could restore circulation now it could be saved?”
“That is not the point. We have to restore the circulation.”
“And there is enough poison in that arm right now to possibly kill me if you try to restore the circulation. I may even throw a clot into my heart or brain and die.”
“But we have to restore the circulation.”
“Doctor, I want it understood that I consider any attempt to restore that circulation a risk to my life. I have written a document that is on file in my office that says if I die and it is the result of trying to save that arm I want charges of homicide filed. The only treatment I will agree to is to have that arm removed.”
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