Trauma

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With great respect and admiration, Trauma is dedicated to Dr. David Grass of McLean, Virginia. This book would not have been possible without his dedication to the medical profession, his skill and experience as a practitioner, his imagination, and his support and contributions to this project from start to finish.

To say I couldn’t have gotten here without him is an understatement.

D.P.

It began, innocently enough, with a fall.

Beth Stillwell, a slight, thirty-five-year-old mother of three with kind eyes and an infectious laugh, was shopping at Thrifty Dollar Store with her kids in tow. She’d been stocking up on school supplies and home staples when she lost her balance and tumbled to the grimy linoleum floor. It was bad enough to have to shop at the dollar store, something new since her separation from her philandering husband of fifteen years. It was downright humiliating to be sprawled out on their floor, her leg bent in a painful angle beneath her.

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