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Thursday, May 26, 2005

A Patient's Experience

In Fearful Symmetry, a composer writes about her experience with an infected intravenous dialysis catheter:
Dear Bacteria That Actually Belong In My Body,

The antibiotic wasn't meant for *you*.

Please come back; I really, really, REALLY miss you.

Hopefully,
Stephanie

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