The Road Between Us
“Spring 1944FOR ROUGHLY TWO YEARS OUT OF THE PAST THREE, CHARLES HAS been a visiting member of the Guinea Pig Club, in East Grinstead. Though it is mostly made up of RAF pilots with burn injuries, membership is open to anyone who has undergone experimental reconstructive plastic surgery at the Queen Victoria Hospital. Anyone, that is, who likes a drink. And few like drinking more than Charles.He feels at home whenever he is there. The Guinea Pigs are allowed to wear their service uniforms, or ci...vilian clothes, instead of ‘convalescent blues’ and may come and go from the hospital at will. Local families, meanwhile, are encouraged to treat them as normally as they can. East Grinstead has become ‘the town that does not stare’.Part of Charles’s treatment has included the ‘walking-stalk skin graft’, a new reconstructive surgical procedure that involves taking skin from one part of the body and grafting it on to another. He has also had belladonna laid over his eyes and endured a complete immersion of his skin in saline solution.MoreLess
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