sheet of paper he was going to draft the report on). 70yearoldpussy it was cold. The car
had been very slow to start that morning. Dr
Shawcross hummed tunelessly to himself and reached down to the floor where
his 70yearoldpussy briefcase was. He glanced over the previous reports on Grout as his
right hand fumbled in the case for his pipe and tobacco. He found them,
put the pipe on his desk and started to stuff the tobacco into the 70yearoldpussy bowl.
His mind wandered when he saw the date of Grout's accident; June 28th last
year. He sighed. Summer seemed such a long way away, but at the same time
there was that paper he had to write 70yearoldpussy for the conference in Scarborough in
June; that would come around soon enough; he'd be pushed for time on that,
he'd bet.
Steven Grout (no middle name) had been involved in a road traffic accident
on June 28th, 1983. 70yearoldpussy a beer barrel struck him on the head after bouncing
off the 70yearoldpussy back of 70yearoldpussy a lorry. Grout had fallen 70yearoldpussy into the stream of traffic and
been run over by a car. His scalp was lacerated, skull 70yearoldpussy fractured, both
clavicles and the left scapula 70yearoldpussy sustained fractures, and he had multiple rib
fractures as well.
Dr Shawcross experienced an odd sensation of deja 70yearoldpussy vu, then suddenly
recalled that he'd 70yearoldpussy read something about the trial of the case which
resulted from this accident in the paper just the other day (was it
yesterday?). Hadn't somebody famous been involved, or somebody
connected
with somebody famous? Some public figure, anyway, and 70yearoldpussy some sort of
scandal. He couldn'70yearoldpussy t remember. Maybe 70yearoldpussy the 70yearoldpussy paper was still in the house.
He'd check when he got back in the evening, if he remembered, and Liz
hadn't thrown the paper out.
Dr Shawcross read through the previous reports, packing the tobacco 70yearoldpussy into
the bowl, putting the pipe in his 70yearoldpussy mouth, then 70yearoldpussy patting his pockets one by
one as he searched for his matches. His eyes flitted over the typed sheets
as he refreshed his memory, only certain important words and phrases really
registering: 70yearoldpussy cyanosed flail chest... intubation... 70yearoldpussy raised intracranial
blood-pressure and Dexamethasone and
Mannitol... pulse slowing... blood
pressure increase... very slow response to deep painful stimulus... eyes
deviated dysconjugately... possible frontal lobe contusion... neck angle a
70yearoldpussy tracheostomy was performed...
Dr Shawcross tutted to himself, pulled open a drawer, rummaged