Hal's prior ER visit "almost exactly one year back"

texture · YDAU, ~late Nov

• When: ~late Nov YDAU (2009), one year before the YG frame
• What: In the YG ambulance Hal recalls being wheeled into an ER on a psychiatric stretcher one year earlier, parked in the waiting room beside a Québecois woman who described her sudden breast "gigantism" for twenty minutes. Establishes that the YG collapse is not Hal's first psychiatric-ER episode; a prior YDAU incident — falling in the gap after the 20 Nov material — is on record. The novel never narrates it directly; the timeline's last dated YDAU entry.