Frank Prem

Franks Psychiatry 4 #46: a h.r.t. fan

a staff nurse mentioned today
in passing

 

 it\'s been sixteen years ...

 

since they took out
her ovaries and uterus

 

... and all that

 

it was just a conversation
about a fan she\'d misplaced
and how she needs it every day
every hour sometimes
when the flushes rise

 

she woke in the middle of the night
last week
to find herself
saturated
pillow sheets and nightwear

 

the doctors have told her
that\'s the way it has to be
unless she restarts hormones

 

but she doesn\'t want that
they don\'t feel safe to take
and she\'s had lumps removed already

 

she knows a friend
a woman
who\'s been having flushes
for over thirty years
and probably will forever

 

if anything
is forever

 

meanwhile
she wants her fan
now
and if one of the male staff
has hidden it
there\'ll be hell to pay

 

 

 

 

sometimes

it gets pretty hot around here

 

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