CHAPTER 14SHRINKS AND NEURONS
After the incident on the bridge, Ryan immediately contacted his favorite neurologist, Malcolm Whitehead. He didn’t admit to experiencing full-blown hallucinations, but did confess to the “very occasional episode of distorted visual perception” and asked Whitehead to have at him. And have at him he did. MRIs, PET scans, EEGs, blood tests, spinal taps, and the like. Afterward, Whitehead went over the results.
“So, Ryan, I’ve run every test I can think of, and everything’s absolutely clean. If I had to put money on it, I would bet your visual disturbances are related to your constant state of sleep deprivation.”
“You think?”
“Sure. I see the hours you keep. And the amount of call you’re taking. It was bound to catch up with you. Your poor brain is probably a
