DAY SIXTY ONE

The alarm interrupted her dream.  In it Jack was massaging her stump.  It felt so, so good.  She was sitting on the sofa next to him, warm feelings surging over her.  She could feel the warmth of his body next to hers.  Waking up broke the spell.  Her stump felt so constricted in the bandage.  She got everything ready for her shower, unwrapped her stump, quickly showered, dried and put her cast back on her stump.  “Thank God it went on,” she breathed.  She finished dressing, putting on everything but her trousers.  In the corner next to her white crutches was the old cast and pylon she wore in the first days after her amputation.  It was essentially a peg leg with a locking hinge on the original cast.  The peg leg had the advantage of being very light, and yet able to bend the knee to sit.  She picked it up, unscrewed the leg from the cast, slipped it into the adapter in the cast on her stump and tightened the bolt.  Then she checked the knee lock to be sure it was set, tested the leg to see it was solid and then checked that it could be easily released and re-locked it.  That done she sat down on the bed and pulled on her trousers.  She stood up and tried to put weight on the pylon.  It wasn’t totally comfortable.  In fact it was just plain nasty feeling.  She would use her crutches most of the time today but for the few steps at a time and when standing she would have two feet.  

To read more of this story click here.  There are links to the other chapters in chapter 1.

The Night Sniper Chapter One: On the Beat

The Night Sniper: Ch. 039 Jack Asks Penny to Visit Norma

Chapters were numbered wrong, there is no number 41

The Night Sniper: Ch. 042 Barb Picks Up Unit 55 and Dwayne