Excessive abdominal noise is an uncommon, but not unprecedented, presenting symptom of infection with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal.
I pulled out my phone and searched “human microbiome” to reread Wikipedia’s introduction to the trillions of microorganisms currently inside me.
I clicked over to the article about C. diff, scrolling to the part about how most C. diff infections occur in hospitals.
I scrolled down farther to a list of symptoms, none of which I had, except for the excessive abdominal noises,
although I knew from previous searches that the Cleveland Clinic had reported the case of one person who’d died of C. diff
after presenting at the hospital with only abdominal pain and fever.
I reminded myself that I didn’t have a fever, and my self replied: You don’t have a fever YET.
At the cafeteria, where a shrinking slice of my consciousness still resided,
Daisy was telling Mychal that his averaging project shouldn’t be about people named Mychal but about imprisoned men who’d later been exonerated.
“It’ll be easier, anyway,” she said, “because they all have mug shots taken from the same angle,
and then it’s not just about names but about race and class and mass incarceration,”
and Mychal was like, “You’re a genius, Daisy,” and she said, “You sound surprised,”
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