A young female athlete girl breaks her leg playing soccer. After treating the fracture the doctor sees the potential of a more serious condition and calls her back. While he is doing the tests she begins to study the diagnosis, treatment and outcome of the treatment and in doing so she encounters something disturbing. Are all the surgeries being done for this condition necessary?
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“And if you can do it, you will, if not we work out something else.”
“How are Larry, Lem and I going to get to school, I can’t drive like this?”
“Your mom will take care of it.”
“But she has to be at work before we have to be at school. That was the big thing about me getting my license and the car.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“It does to me, I agreed to take the guys to school.”
“It was a good idea when we did it. If it is so important to you, maybe we can get a gas pedal on the other side? We’ll see if you can get in the driver’s side of the car tomorrow. Let me see if I can find a left foot pedal.”
“I can get into the driver’s side, I tried it at the hospital and mom had a cow.”
He laughed, “I bet she did.”
“Can you see if you can help me figure out how to get to my computer? I have to get my assignments and get them done.”
“Sure, but wouldn’t it be good to wait?”
“I need to do it now.”
He nodded, like her mother, when she said something had to be done now it had to be done now. “OK, let’s go. Can I help you?”
“Please help me by doing only what I can’t do for myself.”
“OK.”
She picked up her crutches and headed toward her room. She stopped at the door and pushed it open with her left crutch, then crutched over to her computer chair. She pulled it out and lowered herself into it. “I need to figure what to do with this when I am working. It isn’t going to fit under the desk.” She pointed to the cast on her right leg.
“Maybe we can put something to the side for you to put it on, you’ll have to sit sideways with your leg pointing out here.” He pointed to the side. He looked around the room, picked up a chair placed it to the right of her desk. “See if your leg will go in that.”
She lifted her leg and he slid the chair under it. She nodded, “That’ll work. Let me do some of my homework, when mom gets lunch ready ask her if she can bring it in.”
“OK, will do. When you get tired, get some rest.”
“I will. And ask mom to bring in a couple of the pain pills, this is really hurting.”
“OK.”
She booted her computer, downloaded assignments and started working. Her mom brought in the pills and a bowl of soup for her. She fussed over Laura for a while then left as she realized Laura needed some time to work and some time alone.
Both parents checked on her several times during the afternoon. Her dad asked if she could stay there alone for about twenty minutes if he and her mom went to school to pick up her brothers and her car. He handed her the cordless phone. She nodded and went back to typing.
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