The Yellow Glass
““Are you sure you don’t have kidney pain?” One doctor asked.
“How are your eyes?” Asked another, holding up four fingers. “How many?”
I was tempted to say five, but I stopped myself.
“We’ll take a good look at them, anyhow,” he promised, and they did, holding up charts of rapidly diminishing letters for me to read.
“J. K. Q,” I got down to the itsy-bitsy ones at the very bottom.
“Q?” He queried. “I don’t think that’s a Q.” He peered at it. “No, you’re right, Miss Stone. It is a Q. Well... done; not many get that far.”
I felt absurdly pleased because I could have memorised all of the charts from my last visit to Charing Cross, but I hadn’t. Honestly.
I’d been in hospital for two days when a nurse asked me, casually, whilst filling up my jug of water: “Any hay fever in your family?”
“Oh, yes,” I replied, sitting up in bed. “My father’s riddled with it. He grew up in the London fogs and he didn’t know he had it until we went to live in Kent and all of the wildflowers attacked him en-masse. But I’ve never suffered from it.”MoreLess
“How are your eyes?” Asked another, holding up four fingers. “How many?”
I was tempted to say five, but I stopped myself.
“We’ll take a good look at them, anyhow,” he promised, and they did, holding up charts of rapidly diminishing letters for me to read.
“J. K. Q,” I got down to the itsy-bitsy ones at the very bottom.
“Q?” He queried. “I don’t think that’s a Q.” He peered at it. “No, you’re right, Miss Stone. It is a Q. Well... done; not many get that far.”
I felt absurdly pleased because I could have memorised all of the charts from my last visit to Charing Cross, but I hadn’t. Honestly.
I’d been in hospital for two days when a nurse asked me, casually, whilst filling up my jug of water: “Any hay fever in your family?”
“Oh, yes,” I replied, sitting up in bed. “My father’s riddled with it. He grew up in the London fogs and he didn’t know he had it until we went to live in Kent and all of the wildflowers attacked him en-masse. But I’ve never suffered from it.”MoreLess
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