Missing Without A Trace by Rider Tanya

Author:Rider, Tanya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books
Published: 2011-01-06T05:00:00+00:00

Tom’s heart was heavy. Despite his joy that Tanya was finally coming home, he felt overwhelming dread.

He’d kept the reality of their financial situation to himself but, soon, he’d have to tell Tanya. After all those years of working two jobs so they could buy their land and build their home—after all the sacrifices they’d made so they could achieve their dreams—they would probably lose everything, even the house. After all they’d been through, after all she’d been through, they would have to start over. The bills were mounting and they already had more bills than they could pay. Collectors were calling for payments. Tom and Tanya’s dreams were slipping away.

Tom had to come up with eight-thousand dollars to make a down payment to Harborview Hospital. To help Tanya recover, he would have done whatever he had to do. He managed to raise the money but, then, Tanya’s insurance wouldn’t pay for a portable wound vacuum for her recovery at home. The wound vacuum creates negative pressure in a wound, pulling blood to the surface, encouraging healing and promoting scar tissue formation. Tanya had used one at Harborview Hospital but couldn’t continue this treatment at home, even though the device would have sped up her healing time. Tanya was almost relieved, for nothing compared to the pain of changing the tape on the wound vac. “None of the other pain came close to it.”

For her part, Tanya had made great progress during her three months in the hospital. She could stand up on her own and walk with a cane. She could navigate stairs—up and down—if someone was close by. And, more or less, she could dress herself. She was ready.

Tom bought Tanya a cute outfit for the big day. Tanya never allowed Tom to shop for himself—much less for her—because he usually chose extreme clothes in loud colors. But, when he gave Tanya her “going home” outfit, she was pleasantly surprised. He had picked out a pair of black bell bottom workout pants that had enough room to accommodate the brace that she wore on her foot, and a pretty shirt that was large enough to allow her to get her left arm into it. Tanya could tell that he put more than the usual amount of thought and effort into choosing the outfit. She was proud of him, and more than a little touched.

On December 23, 2007, Tanya was discharged from Harborview Hospital and Tom picked her up in Tanya’s brand new, blue Honda Element—one year newer than the one in which she’d been trapped. Tom had asked her what kind of car she wanted and she’d said she wanted the same car. “He knows how hard it is for me to buy good things for myself,” she said. “So, before I got home, he replaced my car.” Just like its predecessor, the car was named “Skywalker.”

Her discharge diagnoses included trauma with multiple wounds including open wounds on her hip, abdomen and thigh. She also had a shoulder dislocation, left wrist drop, left foot drop, deep-vein thrombosis, anxiety and depression.

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