The crucial appointment is cancelled without apology or explanation. The pharmacy does not have the key epilepsy drug, ordered well in advance, as suggested, and over-cautious for safety’s sake. The therapist has forgotten the appointment – I have not ‘just turned up’ on a whim. It was him. And I was not rude. Everything, if not broken, is breaking. The stakes are skewed. And the tooth was cracked, and later removed – it was not my imagination. An academic vindication, He never knew – as therapy was terminated abruptly, and not by me, before the extraction.
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© Stephen C. Middleton
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