i had to backtrack a few times and insert something id forgotten and i avoided embroidering the story with some of the details id learned from eddie the nurse , knowing the narrative hed woven for me would have itself been something like frankensteins monster : it would have had been put together piecemeal from bits hed unearthed from police , doctors and a few of the other nurses gossiping closely together at a desk down the hall from my room .