Chapter 19
“Did a kid ever push a sharp object into your back when you were young? Or did you perhaps have a car accident?”, the doctor asks
I shake my head no
“This is very odd…”, she comments pensively
“Odd or not I am happy it’s a piece of metal. I don’t know how it got there, but I tell you, I am relieved to know that’s it. At first I thought I had cancer…”, I tell the doctor
“Yes, for a moment I thought so too, but the way it looked made cancer an unlikely option…it wasn’t making sense to me”, she tells me
I know there’s something more she wants to tell me. She’s debated if she should voice her thoughts out loud, but at last she does
“The shape of the object appears extremely regular under the microscope”, she explains, showing me a magnified picture of the object stuck on my shoulder
It looks like a perfect little pill, and I observe it closely, fascinated.
What is it?
“I can’t place it, you see…it’s not the typical object that accidentally finds its way in a person’s shoulder”, she tells me
“What do you know?”, I ask abruptly
“I sectioned it and conducted further analyses. It looks like a…device. Almost like the microchips people use for Fido to find it in case it gets lost”, she tells me, studying my face as she speaks
“A microchip? Are you sure?”, I blurt, knowing she is
She pulls out other images of the sectioned objects and a microchip is what I would call ‘the thing’ too.
“But why would I have had a microchip implanted on my shoulder?”, I ask, not expecting an answer
“This is what I am really confused about”, she replies, her eyes scanning the images