Decline reported from Staff Meeting: T-cells down, eye infection, a mooted transfer — and a doily for Gately

pivotal · ~12-15 Nov YDAU

• When: during Gately's post-shooting hospitalization, ~12-15 Nov YDAU; the book's furthest chronological point for Charlotte.
• What: Calvin Thrust, visiting the hospitalized Gately, relays Staff-Meeting news: Charlotte Treat's T-cell count is down. She is needlepointing Gately some kind of GET BETTER A DAY AT A TIME ASSUMING THAT'S GOD'S WILL doily, but it's been slow going because she has developed a goopy Virus-related eye infection that's got her bumping into walls; her counselor Maureen N. at the Staff Meeting wanted Pat to consider having her transferred to an HIV halfway house up in Everett that has some recovering addicts in there. This is the last the book sees of her: the Virus advancing toward a possible exit from the House, the recovery idiom still in her hands.