Chapter 75: Bring Someone With You
Why is it hospitals all paint their walls green? Must be a tranquil color, he mused. Maybe it keeps the patients from rioting.
Michael stared blankly at the wall of the waiting room; it was painted a light not-quite-seafoam and accented with darker not-quite-forest. Sea or wilderness? It was as though they had mixed their inspirations. Hed have preferred blue.
Theyd probably just fuck that up, too. He shook his head in disgust
His appointment for a PET scan had been scheduled for an hour earlier, yet still, he sat, waiting to be called. Uncharacteristically, he found that he didnt mind waiting. He was in no hurry to hear more bad news. Maybe it would be good news. He was afraid to expect anything.
Hed called Alexis the morning after hed had the melanoma removed from his shoulder, telling her that he wouldnt be able to make Seattle, telling her hed come down with a sudden case of the flu.
You need to get your flu shot every year, Michael, shed admonished.