Ka-die-chi Man
I said.
"It's good news and not so good news," John replied. "We should really not be interfering in their private affairs. That's my take on the matter."
At the time, I disagreed but kept my own counsel. I often wondered about Henry and the reception he got when he went back to his community. It slowly dawned on me that perhaps we weren't doing Henry any favors by interfering with Aboriginal matters about which we knew less than nothing.
Henry had been sedated almost to the point of death until the psychic shock had been circumvented. Henry survived but during the morphine subterfuge, his childhood hopes and fears were surely dashed.
It wasn't a case where the operation was a success but the patient died. In this tragedy, the victim survived.
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