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Author: Carson In Her Own Words

Crusing Doctors

"I want to be able to write whether in sickness or in health, for indeed, my health depends almost completely on my writing. The doctors have all decided that my crippled leg must be amputated. They cannot do it right away because the hospitals are so full...So in the nights of glare I just cuss out the doctors for making me wait, and cuss out my leg for hurting so."