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You muster all your strength and push through the pain eventually being able to weakly call out for someone. Luckily for you a nurse is walking by and they rush in to tend to you. She asks you what is wrong and presses the button next to your bed for a doctor.
You whisper "where am I?" and the nurse with some tears in her eyes stroked your head.
"You had a little accident honey but you will be ok, the doctor will be here soon just stay calm." The nurse had a reassuring voice which helped a lot. About ten minutes later the doctor came in with a file. He looked at me with a strange look in his eyes that I couldn't quite understand. It wasn't disgust nor was it sadness it was something, different.
The doctor looked at the nurse "Did you tell her yet nurse"
"No sir, I was waiting for you"
"Thank you nurse, Rachel I'm afraid you have gotten incredibly sick and the only way to save you was to cut off the infected areas to get rid or the disease. I'm afraid this means you have lost your arms and legs. The procedure is called a double hip disarticulation and double shoulder disarticulation, you have no residual limbs at all I'm afraid." You couldn't believe this information, you were limbless? This could not be happening, not to you, you were healthy, and active. You mind spirals as you pass out in a cold sweat. You then wake up still in the hospital but your pain is mostly gone. You see your parents standing near you with the doctor at the foot of the bed. You wonder where your boyfriend is though and you consider that he probably left you.
"Hello honey, welcome back" Your mom says trying very hard not to cry.
The doctor walks up to your parents and hands them a flyer then walks over to you. The hospital is going to offer you physical therapy, you will start it next week. You think of the stupidity of that, what could physical therapy ever do for you, 'like I could even learn anything, I'm just a useless cripple now' you think to yourself. The doctor then spoke again "of course we can't force you to do it, you will have a choice though I highly recommend it, you could learn some stuff."
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