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?
It was Laura’s first half day back at school. As the morning passed many of her friends wished her well.
She decided to eat lunch and visit with her friends before leaving so she got her tray of food, took both crutches in one hand and made the steps on her peg leg to the table where her friends were sitting. Brian was usually around to eat with them. Today he was on a trip with the computer club. As she lowered herself to the chair everyone stood and clapped. She was finishing eating when a guy came over and asked if he could sit down. Laura motioned him to an empty chair.
“Laura, I’m Larry Jasper. I need to talk to you. I work on Linux with Brian Warner. He told me to talk to you. I need help. I hate to ask.” His eyes watered and his voice cracked.
Her friends were silent.
“What can I do?”
“My girlfriend, the girl I was dating, I mean am dating. She had surgery last Tuesday. She, I mean, oh I can’t explain this. Could you go to the hospital to see her? She is talking wild, like about killing herself. They either have her drugged out of her head or she is in terrible pain. It is bad, real bad. This was to save her life. It’s killing her.” He buried his face in his hands.
“What happened to her? Who is she? And how can I do anything about it?”
He was sobbing but enough words came through, “She, sob, her left leg, sob, last Friday, sob, drugs, sob, pain, sob, it’s gone, sob, she can’t handle it, sob, thinks I can’t love her, sob, wants to die. I really, I mean she is special.”
By now Laura knew enough. “Has anyone been in to see her? I mean, another amputee?”
“No. They are sending her to therapy, pushing her to walk on that pole but it isn’t helping her. I went to see her. She told me to get out. She loves me and doesn’t want me to be stuck with a cripple. I’m afraid that when I see her leg the first time I’ll get sick or gasp and make it worse for her. She has it tough enough right now without me making it worse.”
“Do you really want her?”
“Yes.”
“You sure?”
“She kept me from running away two years ago when things were bad at home. I owe her a lot. I love her more than anything.”
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