A drug addled woman names her baby “Prescious.” A 21 year old woman named Prescious. Prescious is spelled wrong. She has a skin infection and gallstones. Her girlfriend cheats on her. Prescious drinks soda all day everday and the only fruit or vegetable she eats is corn.
Mrs. G is a school librarian. She is plump and in her sixties. She wears a delightfully forthright magenta shirt and eye shadow to match. She asks the doctor how that flu had gone. I am left in the room to take a history. So I ask the school librarian: where does it hurt? Does the pain radiate? Does she live alone? I still cannot ask this school library about her sexual history. To avoid it, I ask about drug use. She tells me she had been addicted to crank through out her youth. Later the doctor shows me her kidneys.
Vitals. Age: 24. Height 165 cm. weight 130 lb. temperature 97.8. bp 112/70 arterial blood gases normal. Socioeconomic status: upwardly mobile Heart rate: leisurely and longing. Age of lost virginity 17 years. Times fallen in love: 3. Times heart broken: 3. Family history: heart disease, diabetes, a woman of healing, a music teacher, and 14 skeletons in the closet.
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