she was crazy, when there were so many other things that it could be, and Mia knew that she wasn't going to get anywhere near a solution if she didn't go speak to a professional.
Amyface : I know, Cass. I'm actually looking for doctors right now. Because I really am tired of this and it's starting to worry me.
CC : i can't believe it's only JUST starting to worry you. i've been worried since we were kids.
Amyface : I know. I just. I'm worried about what it might be.
CC : do you want me to come down there??? i can you know. i've got loads of vacation time saved up and I can come hold your hand or something.
Mia smiled at the screen. Having Cassie come be with her while she did this would be wonderful, but she knew it was something that she was going to have to deal with on her own.
Amyface : Thanks, Cass. But I think I need to handle this alone for right now. Just until I know what's going on. Then maybe I'll come see you? I could use a vacation too.
CC : or maybe we meet in Hawaii and have a real vacation.
Amyface : Now you're talking. Anyway, I'm going to do some research on these doctors and then maybe try to get an appointment. I'll let you know how it goes.
CC : i'm proud of you. take care of yourself, doll. <3<3<3
Amyface : I 'll try. <3
Somewhat encouraged by her friend's support, Mia spent the next several hours going through the lists of doctors that worked with her insurance and were nearby. They all had a little blurb about them, but that wasn't really helpful.
She didn't even know what to call what happened to her, so how would she even know who to look for?
Her head was telling her to go to a medical doctor who would run tests and take blood and all that, but her gut was telling her that maybe there was something more psychological at work here.
And ugh, that was what she had always been afraid of.
Chewing on her lip some, she sighed and just decided to go for both options. If the doctor found something, then she could always cancel the appointment with the shrink. And if neither of them found anything, then...
Well, then she didn't know what she was going to do.
She lived alone now, and it had gotten much worse since she'd moved out of her parents' house, almost as if the presence of her parents had been holding back whatever this was instead of exacerbating it, like Mia would have assumed.
The thought that no one would be able to figure this out scared her, but she didn't dwell on it. Instead she made the phone calls, making an appointment with the medical doctor for the next day and the shrink for the end of the week.
Once that was done, she went to the kitchen and cooked to clear her head. She hadn't eaten since the pizza she'd had for dinner (and for some reasons she was always famished after one of her "episodes"), so she made a large breakfast with pancakes, eggs and sausage. Then sat down and demolished it.
Aside from her episode and the fact that she was a senator's daughter, Amelia Hatcher thought she was a pretty normal woman. She liked to listen to music and spend time with her friends. She cooked when she was stressed out, and she worked as an illustrator for children's books. Her parents had been upset when she'd moved from their sprawling house in Maryland to a cute little town house in North Carolina once she'd finished with art school (and of course, they'd been upset that art school had even been a thing at all), but she wasn't worried about disappointing them as much once she was an adult.
Her mother complained that they never saw her enough, and her father seemed to take the move as a personal insult, complaining that he couldn't very well talk about family values if he didn't have his family close by, but Amelia hadn't cared.
She'd spent a very big portion of her life suffering in silence thanks to her parents, and she didn't think that the kind of emotional pain that had put on her was going to go away any time soon.
And she wanted to be on her own, anyway.
It was for
Amyface : I know, Cass. I'm actually looking for doctors right now. Because I really am tired of this and it's starting to worry me.
CC : i can't believe it's only JUST starting to worry you. i've been worried since we were kids.
Amyface : I know. I just. I'm worried about what it might be.
CC : do you want me to come down there??? i can you know. i've got loads of vacation time saved up and I can come hold your hand or something.
Mia smiled at the screen. Having Cassie come be with her while she did this would be wonderful, but she knew it was something that she was going to have to deal with on her own.
Amyface : Thanks, Cass. But I think I need to handle this alone for right now. Just until I know what's going on. Then maybe I'll come see you? I could use a vacation too.
CC : or maybe we meet in Hawaii and have a real vacation.
Amyface : Now you're talking. Anyway, I'm going to do some research on these doctors and then maybe try to get an appointment. I'll let you know how it goes.
CC : i'm proud of you. take care of yourself, doll. <3<3<3
Amyface : I 'll try. <3
Somewhat encouraged by her friend's support, Mia spent the next several hours going through the lists of doctors that worked with her insurance and were nearby. They all had a little blurb about them, but that wasn't really helpful.
She didn't even know what to call what happened to her, so how would she even know who to look for?
Her head was telling her to go to a medical doctor who would run tests and take blood and all that, but her gut was telling her that maybe there was something more psychological at work here.
And ugh, that was what she had always been afraid of.
Chewing on her lip some, she sighed and just decided to go for both options. If the doctor found something, then she could always cancel the appointment with the shrink. And if neither of them found anything, then...
Well, then she didn't know what she was going to do.
She lived alone now, and it had gotten much worse since she'd moved out of her parents' house, almost as if the presence of her parents had been holding back whatever this was instead of exacerbating it, like Mia would have assumed.
The thought that no one would be able to figure this out scared her, but she didn't dwell on it. Instead she made the phone calls, making an appointment with the medical doctor for the next day and the shrink for the end of the week.
Once that was done, she went to the kitchen and cooked to clear her head. She hadn't eaten since the pizza she'd had for dinner (and for some reasons she was always famished after one of her "episodes"), so she made a large breakfast with pancakes, eggs and sausage. Then sat down and demolished it.
Aside from her episode and the fact that she was a senator's daughter, Amelia Hatcher thought she was a pretty normal woman. She liked to listen to music and spend time with her friends. She cooked when she was stressed out, and she worked as an illustrator for children's books. Her parents had been upset when she'd moved from their sprawling house in Maryland to a cute little town house in North Carolina once she'd finished with art school (and of course, they'd been upset that art school had even been a thing at all), but she wasn't worried about disappointing them as much once she was an adult.
Her mother complained that they never saw her enough, and her father seemed to take the move as a personal insult, complaining that he couldn't very well talk about family values if he didn't have his family close by, but Amelia hadn't cared.
She'd spent a very big portion of her life suffering in silence thanks to her parents, and she didn't think that the kind of emotional pain that had put on her was going to go away any time soon.
And she wanted to be on her own, anyway.
It was for
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