Chapter 14 - WHY NOT REMOVE IT?
This became the question everyone asked.
Neglect alone explained delay.
Not the panic when I reached for the saw.
Please. Don’t open it.
What did Martha think we would find?
Not larvae.
She later insisted she did not know infestation existed.
Possibly true.
She knew something else.
Under the cast, beside the fracture, Dr. Hart documented older patterned skin injuries inconsistent with the reported fall.
They had partially healed beneath fiberglass.
Grip marks.
Narrow linear injury.
Evidence Greg had restrained the arm before the fracture.
The cast covered them.
If removed early, somebody might photograph them.
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By five weeks, Martha hoped they had disappeared.
Instead infection preserved the story in a worse form.
