Chapter 9 - The Follow-Up Appointments
The cancellations had logic.
That made them worse.
After the garage injury, urgent care recommended orthopedic follow-up because my wrist remained painful.
Graham canceled.
He later said:
“You’re already improving.”
After the bathroom fall, physical therapy was suggested.
Canceled.
“You don’t need weeks of appointments for bruising.”
After the kitchen injury, my primary-care doctor wanted a follow-up because dizziness had supposedly caused the fall.
Canceled.
“You haven’t been dizzy again.”
Every cancellation could sound efficient.
Together, they created a pattern.
No repeated clinician saw me.
No one assembled the injuries over time.
No one asked why so many incidents happened around conflict with Judith.
Graham later admitted:
“I didn’t want every appointment reopening the argument.”
There it was.
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Medical care was not only being judged by whether I needed it.
It was being judged by whether it threatened family peace.
