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WTH Part One: Chapter 2: February 9, 1984 circulatory temperature fever mucous blotchy

(Jane threw up mucous at least three times during the night. She did so while on her side, and couldn’t get help when she pressed the call button. The staff people had to change all of her bedding in the middle of the night. Jane had to yell for help. She didn’t get her lower teeth back afterward because they’d become messed up, she said.

(“But Seth was right,” she told me. “The body was trying to get rid of things — the mucous — that it didn’t want.” She sounded weaker than usual. Also during the night, her feet began to turn a mottled red color, reminiscent of the way they used to be when she’d had much swelling in them. Only now there was no swelling. The reddish clots looked like circulatory changes. I noticed them as soon as I entered 330. Jane said they didn’t hurt, except that her right heel in back, and the inside of her right ankle, bothered her a little.

WTH Part One: Chapter 2: February 17, 1984 Bactrim joyride car Cadillac maintenance

[...] She’d also been very afraid that the coughing up of mucous meant she was getting pneumonia — something she hadn’t told me. [...]

WTH Part One: Chapter 2: February 16, 1984 Joe coughing clerk recovered frightened

[...] She then admitted that she’d become frightened today because she’d been coughing up mucous occasionally. [...]