Giving Up the Ghost (2012)
“All of them.
I told him that I’d be happy to do so after they reduced the medication I was on.
No, Blumfield insisted. Test first, then he’d talk with Dr. Chang.
Once again, the test felt like a daylong trip to the dentist. It was awful, and I let everyone know how miserable I was while taking it. I really wanted to tear it to shreds and stuff it down the toilet. But I didn’t. I made myself keep going.
The next afternoon Blumfield and I were in the midst of our regular afternoon session when he... got a page to the nurses’ station. He put my file down on his desk and excused himself.
Lying on top of the open file was a neatly typed “Report of Consultation,” dated after my second blowup in his office.
I turned it around and began reading.
Two decades later I’d walk back into Timken Mercy, take the elevator to the records room in the basement, and open up the file containing all my paperwork, nurses’ logs, and reports from my stay at Timken Mercy. I was surprised that they still existed, having been retrieved from a warehouse a few weeks after I’d requested to see them.MoreLess
I told him that I’d be happy to do so after they reduced the medication I was on.
No, Blumfield insisted. Test first, then he’d talk with Dr. Chang.
Once again, the test felt like a daylong trip to the dentist. It was awful, and I let everyone know how miserable I was while taking it. I really wanted to tear it to shreds and stuff it down the toilet. But I didn’t. I made myself keep going.
The next afternoon Blumfield and I were in the midst of our regular afternoon session when he... got a page to the nurses’ station. He put my file down on his desk and excused himself.
Lying on top of the open file was a neatly typed “Report of Consultation,” dated after my second blowup in his office.
I turned it around and began reading.
Two decades later I’d walk back into Timken Mercy, take the elevator to the records room in the basement, and open up the file containing all my paperwork, nurses’ logs, and reports from my stay at Timken Mercy. I was surprised that they still existed, having been retrieved from a warehouse a few weeks after I’d requested to see them.MoreLess
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