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Chapter 7 by fantaghiro
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recovery
Sarah's remaining time in the hospital went quickly, leaving the two of you limited time to decide what life would be like in the immediate future. Word of "Dianna's" accident eventually spread, and so your discussions were often interrupted by Dianna's friends and business associates. They came to check on her condition and offer condolences of the loss of her daughter.
Several of her friends gave you the side-eye, presumably knowing Dianna's opinion of you. Sarah covered your presence by saying that you were helping support her recovery, the shared grief over the loss of Sarah having brought you two closer together. You didn't know how far that explanation would carry you. It was already clear that Sarah couldn't come home with you. No cover story would adequately explain Dianna giving up her luxury apartment to move into her deceased daughter's middle-class home to live with her son-in-law.
You wondered about moving into Dianna's place while you "helped her recover", but Sarah was unsure of that idea. Her visitors were already commenting on great she looked and that she seemed physically back to normal. She suggested that she could "visit" you regularly, using the explanation that she was helping you with paper work related to Sarah's **** and going through her belongings for you. She seemed confidant she could come up with something for the long-term.
Sarah's visitors also interfered with YOU dealing with the changes. You felt you were just starting to really see Sarah rather in her new body than her mother, and then she had to start acting like Dianna whenever people were around. It threw you off, especially when in the evenings after they left she would want you to curl up with her in the bed to watch tv, just like the two of you always did. The dichotomy messed with your head. And you couldn't help but worry a little at how convincingly - and how easy - Sarah slipped into her Dianna persona when talking to Dianna's friends.
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The Ultimate Transplant
Someone you know is given a new body & life
PLEASE ADD CHAPTERS! A close friend or family member is horribly injured in an accident. As they lay dying in the emergency room, another patient dies of a brain aneurysm. Both of them are organ donors, so a surgeon decides it's the perfect opportunity for him to try an experimental surgery. He transplants the victim's higher brain (the cerebellum) to the donor's body in an attempt to 'save' a life. Amazingly it works. But the surgery was not approved so the hospital convinces the families to keep quiet, arguing that revealing this operation to the public would bring never-ending media attention to all involved. That means that the patient will have to publicly assume the identity of the donor. What will this mean to your friends and family? Who else will you tell? Although you will spend a lot of time and effort giving support, how will all this alter your relationship to the patient? And how will he or she adapt to a complete change of body and identity? Many transformation stories focus on the change or victim, so I thought it would be interesting to instead have the POV be someone who sees the change from the outside. Writers feel free to explore a change in age, gender, class or ethnicity - and the repercussions that change would have on the main character (and others). This is from my writing.com story with thanks and credit to other contributors, especially Wassel, Wordsmitty, and Enigma. Please see the original at https://www.writing.com/main/interactive-story/item_id/1886863-The-Ultimate-Transplant for the original authors' posts. Also you should check out Wassel's version at https://www.writing.com/main/interactive-story/item_id/1974478-The-Transplant ).
Updated on Jun 24, 2026
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Created on Jan 19, 2021
by fantaghiro
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