Ancient Indian lore holds the answer to these
mysterious medical aberrations.
EXCERPT: Frozen Death
At 3:30 A.M., the telephone rang. On the fourth ring,
John picked up the receiver, his mind still foggy from sleep. "This better
be an emergency."
"Is this…Dr. Randall?"
John realized the caller had a male voice, not the
feminine voice of Nurse Simpson. “Yes, I'm Dr. Randall. I'm sorry for being so
abrupt when I first answered the phone. I thought it was the infirmary nurse
calling again."
"I've answered the phone the same way on several
occasions at this time of the morning," said the male caller. "My
name is Steve Patterson. I'm the ER physician at Ocala General Hospital."
"Is it about the inmate I sent to you a few
hours ago? Was it a drug overdose?"
"No."
"A brain tumor?"
"No. His CT brain scan was normal, along with a
normal drug screen," said Patterson. "I'm sorry to tell you but the
inmate died."
John nearly dropped the phone. "What did he die
from?"
"He froze to death. I've never seen anything
like this in my thirty years as an ER doctor. After running all the tests on
him, he started to shake. His temperature rapidly dropped followed by cardiac
arrest. I tried everything to save his life, but nothing worked."
"I’m sure you did everything you could.
Hopefully an autopsy will give us an answer to his death." John decided
not to tell him about Inmate Armstrong’s similar death yesterday morning.
"Thanks for calling me, Dr. Patterson."
"I'm just sorry I didn't have good news to tell
you." He hung up the phone.
John couldn't go back to sleep. He got up and put on
a pot of coffee. After he had showered, shaved, and dressed, he went back to
the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee.
As he sat at the kitchen table, sipping his coffee,
the telephone rang. The ominous ring almost caused him to lose his grip on the
coffee cup. He glanced up at the wall clock: 5:15 A.M. John sprang from his
chair and rushed toward the ringing phone on the wall.
He picked up the phone. "Dr. Randall."
"It's Nurse Simpson from the infirmary."
She took a deep breath. "I have an inmate…"
Stevi B. for Manic
Readers says:
"Frozen Death is a very intriguing mystery and
it gets even more interesting as the answer appears to be found in Ancient
Indian lore. If you love Indian lore, medically impossible puzzles, and
mysteries that look impossible, you will like Frozen Death."
BLURB
Two hairless teenage bodies are
found dead with ritual-type death masks on their faces in Ocala National
Forest. Robert Jenson, a fourth year medical student and Cynthia Davidson, a
pathologist’s assistant, join together to solve these unexplained mysterious
deaths. Clandestine members of a secluded satanic cult adjacent to the national
forest cross their paths. Shortly afterwards, Robert and Cynthia face deadly
situations jeopardizing their own lives as they soon discover someone doesn’t want
them to know the truth behind the teenagers’ deaths. Robert and Cynthia’s
initial platonic relationship evolves to amorous feelings and needs
complicating their investigation. Evil touches the two medical sleuths. And
they don’t realize it until it’s almost too late.
REVIEW:
SUDDEN BLINDNESS
G. L. Didaleusky
Reviewed by Francis
Benedict
4 stars out of 5
It's tragic! People and animals are going
blind without a cause: hospitals are fast filling up with patients suffering
unexplained cases of sudden blindness. Answers are hard to come by and
authorities are at a loss for what to do. As panic sweeps over the city of
Ocala Florida, doctors rush to find a cure for the unexplained incidences. A
doctor in the ER loses his sight in the cause of caring for the blind patients
but when Dr. David Belmont's 17-year-old son Wade also turns up blind finding a cure becomes
more than an option. For David and his beautiful wife Sarah - who is also a
high school science teacher - it will mean journeying to the least expected of
places to discover the source of the blindness epidemic. Much more than
anything else, David will require a nerve of steel to cope with the presence of
Dr. Russell Paton, Sarah's former lover from university and leader of the
experts' team dispatched to Ocala to assist with finding a cure.
Greg Didaleusky has crafted a fast paced novel
in Sudden Blindness leading along a dark tunnel of medical mystery with barely
a flicker in sight ...more than likely to keep readers reaching for the
caffeine all night. This nicely written story deservedly earns my four stars.
Reviewed by Francis Benedict author of To Cure!-a
thriller.
BLURB:
People in Ocala, a small city in Florida, face an
epidemic of sudden blindness. The head of Ocala Regional Medical Center's
emergency room, David Belmont, and his wife, Sarah, a high school science
teacher, seek answers to what is causing the blindness, where did the blindness
originate and why did it suddenly afflict people and animals without warning or
other symptoms? Their son, a high school senior, is one of the victims. These
questions are baffling an experienced investigative medical team from CDC whom
arrive later in the day from Atlanta, Georgia. Unbeknownst to David, Sarah and
the leader of the CDC's team, Russell Patton, has a mutual amorous secret.
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