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The  \nnurse came in, looked at her chart, then said in the form of a  \nstatement rather than a question,“You got stung by a bee and it broke your foot.”  \n“Can bees do that?”  \nShe looked up, incredulous.  \n“I don’t think so,” the nurse answered without looking at her.  \nEmma studied him hard, so he could feel it and said loudly,“Then why did you say that?”  \nHe sat facing the computer and, in a matter-of-fact tone said,“That’s what your chart says.”  \nAfter the nurse left, Emma sat silent, softly swinging her booted broken foot off the edge of the exam table. The doctor came in smelling of menthol and peppermint, smiled and sat at the computer.  \n“It says here that you got stung by a bee that broke your foot.”  \n“Yes,” followed by a long sigh.  \nThe doctor came over and removed her walking boot. He pushed on the most swollen part of her foot.“That hurts!” she yelped. He thoughtlessly lowered her foot (which also hurt) and said the bone was healing nicely.  \nAfter two weeks, the swelling hadn’t improved. One doctor put heron antibiotics. After two unsuccessful rounds, another doctor x-rayed her foot and found a broken bone near her big toe. The doctor claimed the pain and the swelling were caused by the broken bone, not the bee sting. The sting on your toe was a coincidence.” She put a black walking boot on Emma’s foot for stability and told her it would take another month to heal.  \ni  \nEmma laughed as her friend El, dressed in her favorite bohemian skirt and tee, bounced up to the front door carrying a pizza box.  \n“Surprise!” El sang.“How about a movie night?”  \nIt was always planned, never a surprise, but El loved to pretend.  \nEmma got plates and napkins, sat on the couch and spread-out place settings on the coffee table in front of the TV. El set the pizza on the table, opened the box and flipped the top underneath it. They examined the bubbly crust, cheese, arugula, and lemon. Emma opened a bottle of wine, customary for movie night.  \n“What do you wanna watch?“Emma asked, her mouth full of pizza.  \nEl looked at Emma’s foot and the black boot she was wearing.“What happened?”  \nWilderness House Literary Review 21/2  \nEmma’s eyes followed El’s.“I’m not sure. I was eating dinner with Tom and Becky on the patio of The Lakefront Bar when I got stung by a bee. The swelling wasn’t going down after a couple of weeks so I went to the doctor for an Xray. They discovered a broken bone. The bee sting and the broken foot together were a coincidence.” Emma laughed when she told El what the nurse had said.  \nEl asked,“How can a bee sting break your foot?  \n“It can’t,” Emma answered.“But it doesn’t mean the little bugger didn’t try”.  \ni  \nWinter came. Wind, blinding snow, bare trees. A whistle of air came in through a small crack in the window frame, which Emma imagined made her house colder. She lit the wood in the fireplace and sat close, rubbing her hands together.  \nThe phone rang. It’s her ex, Jack, asking if there’s anything she needs to stay warm – has she checked the furnace, changed the filter, have the ducts been cleaned? At first, she thought he was referring to warmth as in him in her bed. But no, it was just about the furnace. It was important to them that, after the divorce, they remained friends. Maybe as a way of softening the sadness.  \nWhen the weather got cold, Emma’s broken foot ached. No one had figured out how or why it broke (she didn’t feel it break) or why her elbow broke a couple of months later. It was quite possible, she told El, that a bee DID break her foot. The thought made them laugh, but only a little.  \nSoon after that, Emma was diagnosed with a mild form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta also known as brittle bone disease. She had none of the classic symptoms beyond two mysterious bone breaks. With her left armin a sling, she managed reasonable independence. She att","cbCaijaESLER9vod","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijaESLER9vod","pdf",141823,"English","# The Bee That Broke Her Foot\n## Medical appointments and competing explanations\n## Recovery, winter hardship, and diagnosis\n## Friends, the ex-partner, and emotional adjustments","[{\"question\":\"Why did the nurse say a bee broke Emma’s foot?\",\"answer\":\"The nurse read Emma’s chart and stated that she got stung by a bee and it broke her foot, without treating it as a question. Emma challenges the statement because bees seemingly can’t cause that outcome.\"},{\"question\":\"What did later doctors discover about Emma’s foot?\",\"answer\":\"After swelling didn’t improve through antibiotics, another doctor x-rayed the foot and found a broken bone near her big toe. 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