mercedes araceli

Brought To Her Knees is both legal and medical fiction. Mercedes Araceli and Bruno Berceto craft persuasive and insightful legal cases. The first case indicts the Orthopedic industry for knowingly designing and installing faulty, toxic, medical joint replacements. The second case charges the legal system with failing to protect the innocent.

Lily Rasmussen begins as a successful, educated mother and career woman who becomes reliant on others due to one of these incapacitating and disfiguring joint replacement surgeries. Her story is told by an innocent bystander in her life - Sophieanne, her daughter. Sophieanne loses her childhood in a foray of medical and legal horrors. Feeling helpless, Sophieanne ultimately pivots away from her mother.

Lily continues to simultaneously fight against the corrupt legal and medical Orthopedic fields but most importantly, Lily struggles to revive her injured mother-daughter relationship with Sophieanne.

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