Chapter 4
It was three o’clock in the morning before I finally got home. I had been right; the situation with the weather and the roads had made for a busy night. Worst of all, there had been an accident on the highway. A tractor trailer had skidded and overturned, resulting in a twenty-seven-car pile-up. Every ambulance company in the area had sent any available bus to help deal with the injuries. And some of them had been horrific.
My patient had been an eight-year-old little girl. Her leg had been crushed when the minivan she was riding in careened headlong into the car in front of them, then flipped. She’d been partially trapped when the side of the van dented, and it had taken a bit of work to free her. She didn’t stop screaming for her mother until shock set in. I had worked franti
