A Frozen Section – Flash Frozen Fiction

Nancy Miller:

Great post Tracey!

Originally posted on What's for dinner, Doc?:

[image error] Photo by Douglas McIIRoy @https://ironwoodwind.wordpress.com/

Flash Frozen Fiction for Friday Fictioneers

Genre: Historical Medical Narrative

(Yes, I did just make that up.)

100 words

A Frozen Section

“Did you study the video I forwarded to you? It’s all in the wrist,” my friend the oncologist joked, as I angled the biopsy needle into my traitorous breast.

“I know how to do a biopsy!”

“I remember you sucked at biopsies in med school. You should have had a mammogram before you left for Antarctica.”

“You know, it was on my list of things to do before I left; pack warm clothes and get a mammogram,” I fired back.

“All in the wrist,” I repeated as the needle hit the gritty mass taking away all doubt. It was cancer.

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My flash frozen fiction inspiration comes from my friend Doug’s photo prompt and from Jerri Nielsen, MD who bravely biopsied and diagnosed…

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