I could tolerate emotional pain.
However, the sharp pain that felt like my joint was being torn was an agony that almost made me pass out. I bit my lips and cried inwardly as the doctor touched the skin around my injured ankle.
"How the injury occurred, Quinn?" the doctor with gray hair and tied to a bun asked me when she sat in front of me and reached out to my leg.
"I um…" I looked at Eric who was frowning. " I fell from the stairs"
"Okay, have you hurt your ankle before?"
"No," I said and shook my head.
"Good." She was so focused on examining my foot, ankle, and lower leg. She even checked my knee. She said it was for her to know if I was in pain anywhere else.
"Can you move it again, dear?" she asked me in a sweet tone.
I smiled at her nervously and tried to rotate my foot. I g
