093. Diagnosis

[vicodincrutch]

Doctor Allison Cameron, you can start formally apologizing....now. If you need any hints, if nothing at all comes to mind, just ask. I'll be sure to supply you with a bevy of ways to make amends.

I think that I'll call in sick with a sudden case of hopefully temporary Charles Bonnet syndrome.

Comments

[eiremagic]

....what the fuck is going on over there?

[vicodincrutch]

Audio and visual delusions. Or a curse.

[eiremagic]

...well...at least I can hear them.

[vicodincrutch]

Slightly encouraging but more humiliating.

I'm still not going to work. Guard the fort.

[vicodincrutch]

What?

[vicodincrutch]

I'm miserable. How are you?

[only_fell]

I prescribe ear plugs, tea and a hot bath.

If I can help, let me know.

[vicodincrutch]

Drowning. There's an idea. Good one, Inara.

[only_fell]

Only them. Not you. I'd prefer you alive. I think it makes you even crankier to die.

[vicodincrutch]

I was thinking more homicide then suicide. Harikari is for quitters.

voice;

[as_damaged]

[though it's barely audible, you can probably make out some of the background babbling if you try.]

Why should you have to make amends for something you didn't intend to do?

Oh be nice, it was an awful situation and besides he's suffering now, if you can make it any better you should.

You know I don't believe anything I said. But I am sorry.

voice;

[vicodincrutch]

"Doctor Caaaameron. This is gonna be great. Hey, you think her little people are up to something? We can have a play date."

"Predictable. So predictable. On your part. On her part."

"She could get you vicodin. At this rate we're not going to have enough to last the day. So much for building up to a wane."

"I will murder you all and not bother to buy tiny caskets. Be. Quiet."

You're right. I don't. But that was on the network.

voice;

[as_damaged]

I was going to make a statement about it, as soon as I... [pause. fill in the blank here, as soon as I get these stupid things to shut up,] get a chance to.

Which is absolutely ridiculous because everyone knows how this works, you shouldn't have to apologize.

voice;

[vicodincrutch]

Good. Don't want you falling off your game.

"You could play a trick on her."

"Then she'll really delight in talking to you. Where did you find this guy?"

"Play nice. Get what you want."

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[adamantined]

[Pause.]

Charles Bonnet syndrome?

audio ][

[vicodincrutch]

New diagnosis. It's a curse.

But for future reference, Charles Bonnet syndrome is when you have a loss or distortion of sight which leads hallucinations. I hit my head, I assumed that after the brief black out this was either a dream or I finally hit the big one. Usually hallucinations that you can only see. This being my life, I figured that I had the exception.

"Boooring. Say, Claire could have some ideas of what to do!"

"Because she likes you so much. Of course."

"It's easy not to. I mean, seriously at that age you could run, swim, skip, hop..."

"What I said about no tiny coffins, I meant it. No jury in the City would convict me."

audio ][

[adamantined]

Pretty much every percent of the time, it's a curse.

[Another pause, and it is kind of awkward.]

Ignoring that... whatever about tiny coffins, for the record, I don't really have any ideas of what to do. Other than maybe walking away from the Network.

audio ][

[vicodincrutch]

One of these times it isn't. Then what? I'll be right.

...No tiny coffins for horrible, tiny people.

"Fibber. She totally knows where it's at."

"Which is why she wouldn't let on. An old guy doing whatever it is the kids do?"

"Anyone else find it ironic that she said go for a walk?"

"Greg House is not an old guy. He's an older guy."

"Delusional delusion, it can only happen here. Maybe this isn't a curse after all. Just the beginning of the downspiral."

"Someone should be at the clinic. They could see if there's a way to induce a coma or at least give you enough downers to stop thinking."