Wenny has Wings
- Chapter 1

Dear Wenny,

I died too. Not when the truck first hit us, but right after in the hospital.
I had a broken leg and a ruptured spleen, and I was bleeding inside and outside.
I was pretty messed up by the truck, and while they were trying to fix me, my
heart stopped for a whole ten minutes.

I sped through a tunnel when I died, then I flew around in the sky. I'd be
flying up there with you still if Dr. Westfall hadn't put two paddles on my
chest and shot electric energy into my heart.

Those paddles must have had a lot of power, because they sucked me back
inside my body. Once my heart started pumping again, the doctors gave me an
operation and filled me up with new blood so I would stay alive.

When I woke up, I found out you didn't come back like I did. I asked Mom if
Dr. Westfall used those electric paddles on your heart, but she wouldn't give me
an answer. She just started crying and had to leave the room.

So you're flying around up there in that good place, and I'm stuck down here
at Children's Hospital with stitches in my side and with my leg all bandaged up
because they had to put my shinbone back together.

Copyright 2002 by Janet Lee Carey--From Wenny Has Wings, by Janet Lee Carey.