Hospital visits to the mute Gately; the anti-Burt petition

texture · ~12-15 Nov YDAU

• When: ~12-15 Nov YDAU (Gately's Trauma-Wing stay at St. Elizabeth's after the shooting)
• What: With Gately intubated and unable to speak, Day becomes one of the residents who "view[s] him as a sympathetic ear" — sitting primly by the bed eating pilfered cream-cheese brownies, disparaging Johnette Foltz's cooking, and plowing through the leaf-phobic-brother memory (event 1) to a man who cannot answer; "It seems like Don G.'s gotten way more popular as somebody to talk to since he's become effectively paralyzed and mute." Meanwhile, back at the House, Day is reported to be "trying to get the other residents to sign a petition to get Burt [F. Smith] barred from the kitchen and dining room" because the handless, footless Burt can't cover his mouth when he coughs — the fastidious intellectual's officiousness turned on the House's most broken member.