At the lab, a male technician guides Susannah through the MRI process. Bailey's neurological exam yields normal results, but he orders blood work and an MRI. A coworker suggests that Susannah see a doctor. Then her left hand goes numb, which she finds just as distressing as her paranoia. She spends two hours going through emails and his dresser, but thinks that something is wrong with her if she's doing this. Several days later, Susannah is suddenly gripped with overwhelming jealousy and decides to read her boyfriend Stephen's emails. Later, Susannah throws away all her saved articles that she wrote to prepare for the exterminator. Susannah is horrified when she hears Steve, the Sunday editor, on the phone-she forgot about her weekly meeting to pitch stories. The next day at work, she tries to talk to her friend Angela about her bites, but is interrupted when her phone rings. She wakes one morning to find bites on her arm, which she attributes to bedbugs. Susannah then goes back to when her illness began. She begins to pull wires off of her head and notices an orange band on her wrist that says, "FLIGHT RISK." A “ purple lady” tries to soothe Susannah, but Susannah becomes angry and paranoid. She wakes up to find that she's restrained. The book begins with Susannah relating a hallucination from the hospital.
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