Gately's evening staffer duties (pp. 593–594)
Gately has to check on Doony Glynn, who has recurrent diverticulitis and has to lie fetal on his bunk when he gets an attack and has to be brought Motrin and a SlimFast shake that Gately had to make with 2% milk because there was no skim left, and then Food Bank crackers and a tonic out of the basement’s machine when Glynn can’t drink the 2% shake, and then Log Glynn’s comments and condition, neither of which are good.
Context
Strictly a physical ailment, but catalogued for the theme's body-inventory: Glynn "has to lie fetal," one more curled horizontal figure in the House on the same night Kate lies three days in bed — the posture the book keeps assigning to its depressed and its dying alike.