The Art of Misdiagnosis by Gayle Brandeis

Author:Gayle Brandeis [Brandeis, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807044902
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

After I went off to college, Elizabeth and I found each other again, found fierce, sweet reconnection. The first time she came out to visit me on her own, we tried to concoct a way for her to stay a while longer. The only way we could change her ticket without penalties, we learned, was to get a doctor’s note to prove she had been too sick to fly. We spent our extra day together driving from one clinic to another, looking for a doctor who would write us this note. She pretended to have flu, she pretended to have a sore throat, she pretended to be constipated, to have trouble peeing. No one would believe her. We found this hysterical. Neither of us had admitted to having fabricated illness at this point—our confessions would come several years down the road—but we knew. We knew we had been the divas of disease, the starlets of sickness. The sick girls who were now girls glowing with health. Girls who, for the blessed, blessed life of us, couldn’t convince anyone we were anything other than well.

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