He’ll be even more odd if I can’t save his spine.
She had him open on the table before him and like she thought, he had multiple fractured vertebrae. She didn’t know how he’d been moving his toes – it really shouldn’t have been possible – but she’d seen some crazy stuff happen in her years that shouldn’t have been possible, so she’d just done her best to accept it.
Inside the operating room, Carrie was in complete control. While her personal life may have sometimes been out her control, that wasn’t the case here.
And of course, everything went perfectly.
She left the operating room and took off her gown, gloves, and face mask. The rest of her nurses and assistants laughed and congratulated each other: a spinal surgery was nothing to scoff at. She couldn’t bring herself to even crac
