Chris Kinsey: A Short Story

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Chris Kinsey laid in his Intensive Care Unit hospital bed wondering if he would ever have a normal life again. He had fallen out of a Norway maple tree at his job and broke his back. Chris was taken to the Lancaster General hospital by a coworker and dropped off at the emergency room. The emergency room moved Chris up to the Intensive Care Unit where his family came into visit him. Just after his family got there a nurse walked into his room to tell him the bad news. His back is not only broken in one place but four and he might have punctured his right lung from the force of falling out of the tree and hitting the ground. Sadness washes over his face as Chris started to realize what had actually happened to him. The next morning a neurospine

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