บท 75: 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.  He’d have preferred blue.

They’d 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 didn’t mind waiting.  He was in no hurry to hear more bad news.  Maybe it would be good news.  He was afraid to expect anything.

He’d called Alexis the morning after he’d had the melanoma removed from his shoulder, telling her that he wouldn’t be able to make Seattle, telling her he’d come down with a sudden case of the flu. 

“You need to get your flu shot every year, Michael,” she’d admonished.