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Date Posted: Mon, February 06 2023, 17:09:38
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2014. Chapter 117 Into The Briar Patch


Sweat was running into my eyes; I had to dash it away with my bared fore-arm; my hands were bloody to the wrist.

“Saw,” I said, and no one moved. Had I spoken aloud? ”Saw,” I said, much louder, and Jamie’s head twisted toward the implements on the table. Leaning heavily on Tench’s leg with one hand, he stretched to grab the saw from the table with the other.

Where was Peggy? On the floor. I saw the bloom of her skirt from the corner of my eye and felt vaguely through the floorboards the steps of a servant coming to haul her out of the way.

I groped for another suture, blind, and the jar of brandy in which I’d stowed them tipped, spilling on the sheet and adding its sweet stickiness to the atmosphere. I heard Jamie gag, but he didn’t move; his fingers squeezed the thigh hard above the tourniquet.

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[> The sheer brutally basic/primitive conditions that Claire works in always amazes me. My Mom was an OR nurse in the 70s - early 90s, and I volunteered there my senior year of high school, so I saw a lot of different types of surgery. It was all relatively clean, with the patient's body draped except where the actual incision was, not to mention sanitary, with sterilized instruments, gloves, gowns, caps, etc. -- DianaH, Tue, February 07 2023, 9:48:15


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[> [> Me too. She is ruthless in her calling to heal and Diana describes these times so well I get a physical reaction. And we always see the heart behind her healing though. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, February 08 2023, 5:46:07


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