Karen Harris is a young woman who narrowly escapes death on the freeway. She has surgery to remove her arm.
“But they look, you are, you know, on TV. Lots of people see you.”
“Maybe people should get used to seeing someone on TV who isn’t perfect. They have been seeing me with only functional arm for over a year. The arm just isn’t there now.”
“I think we can get you measured for one today. Normally it would take several weeks for your stump to shrink enough but with the new surgery we can start fitting you now. It will take a couple days to get it made. By then the implant in your radius should be stable. You will have to be careful with it for a week or two, no heavy lifting but you could start learning to use it for light things. Do you want to start?”
“Yes. As soon as possible.”
“Let me get it on the chart. I think you should get measured for a cosmetic also. We can have them do that at the same time.”
“I will want a cosmetic. There are times I think I will want to wear something that looks like an arm. You know, special time like on my wedding day.”
“Wedding? Are you getting married?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“I don’t know. We haven’t set the date. I met him over the weekend. He just doesn’t know yet.”
“Do you do everything as if there is no tomorrow?”
“Doctor. None of us know if there will be one. If there is anything that this accident taught me it was that what my pastor taught was true. I live for today, doing what I can now.”
He shook his head. “I wish more people could do that. I wish I could.”
She shared some of her faith with him and he left. He wondered how someone with that faith could do what she did to her arm. Half way down the hall he saw it. She was able to do it because of her faith. And she was right, if she had not, she could be dead in a year. With her history of drug reactions and surgical issues, looking back, she had probably done the right thing. But as a doctor he could never have recommended it. But her doctor should possibly have mentioned it as an alternative. Now there was some possibility that she would be in trouble. It would be fine if the insurance company didn’t throw a fit.
Karen: Chapter One – The Attack
Karen 16: Karen Faces Her Tomorrows
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