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Wit Script
Go on.
Why, yes.
Now then, you present with a growth that unfortunately went undetected...
Good.
designed for primary-site ovarian, for the target specificity of stage three...
No.
After the initial eight cycles, you will have another battery of tests.
- Perhaps some of these terms are new... - No, you're being very thorough.
Right.
- The next two will be fine, relatively. - Eight months like that.
Knowledge. Yes.
Good.
The important thing is for you to take the full dose of chemotherapy.
There may be times when you wish for a lesser dose, due to the side effects.
Good.
Excellent.
I've been asked, "How are you feeling?" while throwing up into a plastic basin.
I'm waiting for the moment when I'm asked this question and I'm dead.
I have cancer.
A demanding professor.
Uncompromising.
Oh, yes.
which one would apply to any other text are simply insufficient.
Do you think that the punctuation of the last line of this sonnet...
It reads:
It is a comma. A pause.
past, present.
Not semicolons.
Just a comma.
Isn't it?
I went outside.
They're connected.
I just couldn't...
Anyway...
All right.
- Name? - My name?
Vivian Bearing.
Bearing. B-E-A-R-l-N-G.
Vivian. V-l-V-l-A-N.
Your doctor?
I am a doctor of philosophy.
Okay.
A scholar of
th century poetry.
Okay.
Name?
Thank you.
th century poetry.
Thank you.
- Success. - Really?
Very well.
Good.
or
- When? - Now.
Okay.
No.
Alcohol.
A glass, with dinner, occasionally, and perhaps a scotch every now and then.
No.
Not as often as I should probably, but I've felt fine, I really have.
Pace.
Okay.
- Like a cramp.
- But not the same? - Duller and stronger, I can't describe it.
I started noticing my body, little things. I would be teaching and feel a sharp pain.
Sharp...
and sudden.
- Were you under stress? - It wasn't much more stress than usual...
So...
I went to see Dr. Chin, my gynecologist, after I'd turned in the article.
Here.
Okay.
Yeah, just...
Okay.
Okay.
There. Okay.
Good, okay.
Okay.
Comma.
- Why did you leave her like this? - I had to find you, now come on.
All right.
Just relax.
Okay.
- Jesus. - What?
What?
Okay.
I gotta go.
Thank you.
That was...
hard.
That was...
It is highly educational.
I am learning to suffer.
Two nightgowns.
But that seemed like a positive privilege compared to watching myself go bald.
was thoroughly...
degrading.
But...
Oh, God.
Please...
Steady.
Steady.
Oh, God.
What's left?
You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.
Just uncompromising.
False alarm.
If the word went around that Vivian Bearing had barfed her brains out...
It's about
ccs.
Is that all?
Yeah, it's
Good guess.
Okay.
There anything else I can get you? You want some Jello or something?
None...
to be precise.
Okay.
Make sure you're okay. If you need anything, you just ring.
Thank you.
Okay.
Do not forget...
It hangs.
It weighs.
It goes so slowly.
Not to worry:
But...
if you think eight months of cancer treatment is tedious for all of you...
All right.
Action!
Hex at Vin at .
- Myelosuppression... - Myelosuppression...
Anybody else?
Side effects?
Nausea, vomiting.
- Jason? - Routine.
Anything else?
Come on.
Good grief.
Hair loss.
Jason?
Full dose?
now I am taught.
I looked them up. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect.
Read another.
"is..."
Say it in bits.
"So-por-i-fic."
Nothing.
That's right.
Let me think.
"is soporific."
So...
imagine the effect the words of John Donne first had on me.
Ratiocination, concatenation.
Coruscation. Tergiversation.
Still...
I want to know what the doctors mean when they anatomize me.
I took a taxi.
I'll get Jason, he's on call tonight and he'll be able to give you some meds.
I'm gonna get you some nice juice with lots of ice, okay?
Blood culture and urine, stat. Admit her. Prepare her for reverse isolation.
You'd better talk to Kelekian about lowering the dose next cycle.
Full dose. Wake me when the counts come from the lab.
Full dose?
Yes.
Think of it as a vacation.
- Jason! - What?
In isolation...
I am isolated.
In my present condition...
twice. Okay.
Because...
No...
I am in isolation...
"Think of it as a puzzle..."
were it a game.
Which it is not.
"Cannot be damned
What is it?
Another ultrasound.
It isn't a bad procedure and it won't take long, so why don't you come now?
Name?
B-E-A-R-l-N-G.
Kelekian.
Take a break.
"Here
"Heavens appoint
"And my race
John Donne...
In the abstract.
pointed.
steadfast.
Resolute.
I think...
Oh, God.
- .
Pretty good. No kidney involvement yet. That's pretty amazing with Hex and Vin.
No way.
Jason?
Never mind.
Okay.
why cancer?
Why cancer?
Yeah.
Why not run a lube rack for all the surgeons know about...
Awesome?
Yeah.
- The malignant neoplasia just don't get it. - Neoplasia, cancer cells.
or
times,
But why?
apprehensive, frightened?
Of who?
I just...
Never mind.
Okay.
I gotta go.
Okay.
"Okay."
So...
wishes the young doctor would take more interest in personal contact.
How, then...
You can come to this class prepared, or you can be excused from this class...
Did I say:
"You are
By no means.
"But an expansion
You may.
- I'm sorry, I know your policy, but... - Don't tell me, your grandmother died.
- You knew?
- It was a guess.
I have to go home.
I don't know...
I feel so much...
I don't know.
Can't sleep?
No...
I know.
these doubts.
- Hard things are what I like best. - No, but it's not the same.
I'm scared.
in my GI tract...
- Thanks.
- Thank you.
And then we'd sit on the curb and eat our popsicles.
Sounds nice.
No.
They thought the drugs would make the tumor get smaller.
They've learned a lot for their research and it was the best they had...
There really isn't a good cure for what you have yet.
I knew.
You did?
Well?
You can be full code which means that if your heart stops...
we'll call a code blue and the code team will come in and resuscitate you...
You'll be DNR.
I'm a scholar.
Or I was...
No.
Really?
Yes.
You sure?
Yes.
Okay.
Susie?
Of course I am.
Okay.
Thank you.
Popsicles, "Sweetheart."
No.
kindness.
I'm scared.
Oh, God.
I want...
I want to...
No.
how it feels.
To use my words.
There aren't...
Susie says...
"lt."
"it"...
Okay.
So much pain.
It's a little pump with a little button and you press it...
Okay.
Don't worry.
Excellent.
Hi.
I don't know about that, but it sure does make you sleepy.
What's so funny?
What?
It's just...
It does?
I'm a teacher.
She won't be drinking anymore, see if we can keep her kidneys from fading.
Miss Bearing, Jason and I are here, we'll insert a catheter to collect urine.
- It's just nice to do. - Eight cycles of Hex and Vin at full dose.
I wish they'd all go full throttle, then we'd have some data.
Your whole brain had to be in knots before you could get it.
The Holy Sonnets we worked on mostly were mainly about salvation anxiety.
- How come?
But you can't face life without it, so you write these screwed-up sonnets.
- No way.
The puzzle takes over. You're not even trying to solve it anymore.
- You help people, you save lives and stuff. - Sure, I save a guy's life...
and the poor slob goes out and gets hit by a bus.
we learned in
th Century Poetry...
thinking about that meaning-of-life stuff all the time. You'd go nuts.
It's Evelyn.
Oh, God.
Prof. Ashford?
Oh, God.
I feel so bad.
I can see.
Oh, dear.
There, there.
There, there.
Let's see.
No.
Very well.
Let's see...
"Copyright,
Look at that.
See, Vivian?
"'lf you become a bird and fly away from me,' said his mother...
Very clever.
"And so he did.
Wonderful.
Time to go.
in,
kidneys gone.
"Highly unresponsive."
Wait a second.
Four-five-seven-five.
She's no code!
She's no code!
Kelekian gave the order and you were there, you saw it yourself!
I got it.
Stop it!
Do not resuscitate!
Clear.
- Who the hell are you? - I'm Sue Monahan, the primary nurse.
"Death
Comma.
English