How It All Goes Down
- So Stone tells the whole story, starting from his childhood.
- Stone's father was a drunk, and he loved his mother a lot. She got sick with tuberculosis and was sent to a sanatorium.
- Thomas started coughing up blood and was reunited with his mother at the sanatorium.
- Thomas's mother had a growth on her chest that burst, shooting blood everywhere: it was an aneurysm.
- Thomas's mother died, and Thomas stayed at the sanatorium, learning from the doctor there.
- Thomas was healed, and Dr. Ross sent him to study in England.
- Then Thomas's father died.
- Stone went to medical school in Scotland. He was such a good student that he actually bought himself a cadaver to practice on.
- Thomas got a job in India but realized he needed to leave when India got its independence from England.
- On the ship to Africa, he met Sister Mary Joseph Praise—and we know the rest.