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Prompt: 003. appendectomy
1. They scheduled the appendectomy over her shouts that she’d already had her appendix removed.
A. They scheduled the appendectomy over her shouts that she’d had her appendix removed when she was a teenager. And when she tried to run away from them, they strapped her to the hospital bed to wait for the morning surgery.
They really wanted to cut her open, and she didn’t know why. It made her afraid of what they planned on doing to her.
If she could have, she would have escaped. But with her wrists and ankles strapped to the bed rails she was helpless to do anything but stare up at the ceiling and fret restlessly.
2. It was during a routine surgical procedure that they discovered the strangeness of his anatomy. Not just the reversed location of his heart and other organs, but the extra appendix and the strange bulbous growth attached to his ribcage.
A. It was during a routine surgical procedure that they discovered the strangeness of his anatomy. Not just the reversed location of his heart and other organs, but the extra appendix and the strange bulbous growth attached to his ribcage.
An appendectomy was performed immediately and the extra organ was dissected. There were pages and pages of lab work produced all highlighting the unknown hormone floating in his bloodstream.
From the way they looked at him, he began to feel that they wanted to dissect the rest of him next. There was a frightening avarice in their eyes, one that made him want to squirm with discomfort.
Every time they came at him for another test or blood draw, he repeated over and over again: “I do not give my permission to have my medical information published.”
He didn’t want to hold back scientific discovery, but he would prefer that he have some kind of veto on what was shared. Like he wasn’t too keen on scans of his genitals ending up in medical books with his name right next to them. He had a bit of dignity.
3. “I recognize the appendectomy scar. That’s Jamie. Oh god, that’s Jamie.”
A. “I recognize the appendectomy scar. That’s Jamie. Oh god, that’s Jamie.” She turned to bury her face into her oldest son’s chest. Her body shook with the force of her sobs and he wrapped his arms around her. She could feel his own tears wetting the top of her head.
“How… how did it happen?”
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