the next day. I suggested touring Yosemite and they visited over the weekend (this was after Friday’s session). I am now being very careful what I suggest, and adding lots of caveats (like ‘in the summer’) to prevent messing with their lives.” “Interesting…”
JOURNEYS December “Amasa would like you to go to a different dialysis clinic” Dr A. says at the next session. “OK. Why?” “We can discuss that later. Can you go to the San Carlos clinic for a while?” “Sure. Since I stopped using the catheter, I am not as nervous with new technicians. Before it was pretty scary when a different RN would hook up and clean the catheter. That direct connection to my heart is a little too powerful. Better than the neck catheter though” “You realize you are dead right? What could they have done to your vestigial heart?” “I didn’t say it was rational” A number of members of my addiction-recovery program are now deceased. These are people who had kidney and liver failure, and were either patiently waiting for a transplant or already had a transplant. A liver transplant is no guarantee of life. A lot of things can go wrong. - 31 -
