Carrie Purcell Kahler received an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington in 2007. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hobart, DMQ Review, Faultline, The Dudley Review, Inknode, The Broken Bridge Review, and others. She manages events for Poetry Northwest, and lives in Seattle with her husband and their cat. This poem is part of a series of poems based on diagnosis codes Kahler encountered while processing insurance claims. The project aims to explore the overlap between common parlance and medical language; to tease out some of the roots, off-shoots, and latent stories that lie in what we call our diseases.