Toxic shock
Sunday, June 5, 2011 Day 7 of 12
7:56am Paediatric Ward
URGENT 8yo male, SUSPECTED OSTEO-MYELITIS L) distal femur at bone plate.
I pause, then add an asterisk either side, just so the radiologist knows I mean it.
*URGENT*
There is no room on the form to write that I’ve never seen an eight-year-old boy lie so rigid, his breathing shallow, his eyes the only part of him not frozen. They land on me, and I touch my nametag.
“Look.” I hold it up for him to see WIREMU. “We have the same name.”
His eyes
