How does Lucy Kerr cope after her surgery in The Empty Chair?

Lucy Kerr is filled with anger, a slow-burning sense of betrayal and injustice: When they took part of her body away she'd felt ashamed and then forlorn. When her husband left she'd felt guilty and resigned. And when she finally grew mad at those events she was angry in a way that suggested embers—an anger that radiates immense heat but never bursts into flames.