Chapter 39

• With her eagerness to comply with their requests and eagerness to leave the hospital and return to her farm, Amanda had been the ideal patient for her doctors. She was lucky that the staff at the florist acted promptly to stop the bleeding and seek for help, and that a specialist was waiting for her when the ambulance arrived at the hospital. She hadn't permanently lost feeling in her arm or hand, and the wounds were healing better than expected.
• If you let me go home, I'll pledge to wiggle, stretch, and massage my shoulder and arm. You've seen the number of people waiting to bug me if I don't.
• "It will take weeks, if not months, for your arm to regain its full range of motion. Allan Kruger cast a doubtful glance in the direction of the independent young lady warning, "If you overdo things, you might wind up losing the whole use of your arm."