In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

She wanted to tell him to go fuck himself, but it was too much
effort. She hadn't O.D.'d or anything, not on Max's baby dose, so what
was the story?
"Vee had to drain some fluid from your brain. I sought it best
to investigate your little problem, and I believe I haf eradicated zee
cause of your seizures. You haf a very curious brain morphology, Dr
Bell. No, no, no, don't sank me yet, it vill be a vile before vee can be
sure of zee benefits. At first you may feel some disorientation, but it
should pass."
Züt listened to her heart, checked the head screws, the monitor
at the foot of her bed, and left the room.
Next morning a nurse came in, unwound the bandage, swabbed
at the connections of the contraption into her skull, and smeared some
acrid brown ointment around her head before rewinding a new
bandage around her head.
Her hands were released during this, and a tray brought in with
a dish of Jell-O and a carton of milk. She was allowed to hold a spoon
and maneuver the shaking red cubes into her mouth, no easy task.
Penny could feel a new bumpy scab on the back of her neck,
but the bones felt just fine, so why the head vice? She asked the nurse if
she could open the blinds and the woman ambled over and pulled the
cord so Penny could stare at the lazy clouds as she sipped lukewarm
milk through a bendy straw.
"Why did you put my head in a cage, afraid it'll fly away?"
Penny asked Züt when he showed up again.
"Safety measure, for zee seizures. Be patient!"
She hadn't had a seizure since Paris, months ago. What had they
done to her?
Days went by, highlighted by the arrival of the food tray: gray
or beige meat accompanied by some form of potato and a canned
vegetable, also either gray or beige, then Jell-O, each time in a different
primary color. Eventually, after several rainbows worth of Jell-O, the
head cage was unscrewed, leaving only the turban.
Züt accompanied the orderly pushing her wheel chair to the
magnetic resonance chamber. "Ven vee play your music inside here,
please remain appsolutely motionless."
From now on now she pretty much lived in the MRI tube, her
head encased in a glossy white helmet that sprouted multicolored wires.
Above her head on the tube's inside wall a sticker of Blossom the
Powerpuff Girl forged along with her into the magnetic unknown as
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