While her mother was in prison, teenage Rose Gold started eating and let her hair grow, so when Patty is released, she is holding down a job as a cashier and saving money so she can fix her teeth that are her most disfiguring feature.Ĭlearly Rose Gold has every excuse to avoid her newly released mother, yet she takes her in. This kudos is what she has sought by dosing Rose Gold with ipecac, which causes vomiting - the symptom Patty used to justify an array of diagnoses and treatments.Īs well as vomiting, Rose Gold suffered baldness because Patty claimed a shorn head looked better than one with clumps of missing hair, rotting yellow snaggle-teeth discolored from years of throwing up stomach acid, and home-schooling because her physical problems made her the butt of bullies at school. Praised by an emergency-room physician as doing a “terrific job” with an ailing child, she says, “The old familiar warmth starts in my chest and spreads across my body like an electric blanket.”
Here Patty was able to show off both her maternal devotion and her expertise as a certified nursing assistant, often prompting doctors to additional procedures and treatments.
Most significantly, she took her to constant visits to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms.
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