Kill Me by Stephen White

Author:Stephen White [White, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2011-08-30T18:39:48+00:00

The next day I got a call on my Ob-la-di phone as I was sitting in my Denver office pondering my fate.

No greeting. The voice in my ear was female and familiar.

Tender, too.

“You’re right on the line now. With any more new symptoms, the threshold will be crossed,” she said.

I thought, God, you people are good. “Lizzie,” I whispered.

“I bet they’re pushing surgery harder, aren’t they? Your docs?”

“Yes.”

“Well, consider this, Yossarian: It’s a classic catch-22,” she said. “If you choose not to have surgery, the aneurysm will soon bulge a little more, and you’ll get increasingly symptomatic. And if that happens we will, of course, kill you.

“Or the aneurysm will rupture. Sooner rather than later. Given its location in your brain, you’ll likely die if that happens. If you don’t die, you’ll be severely impaired. And if that happens we will, of course, kill you.”

She paused to let the weight of that scenario sink in, or to steel herself for what she would say next. “If you do choose to have surgery, assuming it goes well, you will undoubtedly suffer some deficits from the procedure. And those deficits will almost certainly exceed the parameters you’ve set to trigger your insurance to kick in. And if that happens we will, of course, kill you.”

“Lizzie,” I said again.

“If you have some business to take care of, I suggest you take care of it.”

She hung up.

I thought she’d sounded sad.

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