Session 3: A New Player
A negligible amount of progress has been made today. Ms. Hadley seemed extraordinarily upset, for reasons unknown to me, and I cut the meeting a little short instead. I tried to distract her by speaking of my own life in ways she could relate to.
However, when I asked her about possible news from the hospital, she mentioned a name she had previously left out. There is a new character in the play, a female doctor, Allison Cameron. Despite the fact that the two work three floors away from each other and meet only occassionally, Thirteen seems to hold great respect for Ms. Cameron. I reckon this might be partially caused by Thirteen's potential guilt for, quote, "replacing" the aforementioned colleague in the Diagnostics Department.
She mentioned having been working with dr. Cameron on strange cases dr. Cameron keeps (almost stubbornly) presenting Mr. House with. My patient and dr. Cameron do not talk to each other much, but Thirteen vehemently denies any feelings of rivalry sparking between the two of them, especially from dr. Cameron's side. I have my doubts about the honesty of such statements, but nonetheless do not know enough to speak with certainty about the matter.
Today, Dr. Hadley also brought the second part of her story, which I am eager to read.
One day, however, the sky dyed black as a thick cloud swept across and wiped the sun away. The daisy waited and waited, but could not see its shine at all. It began to miss the sun and eventually grew so sad that it turned away and closed itself, weeping over its loss.
Its owner noticed the change and started to worry about the daisy. "What's the matter?" he kept asking, but the daisy would never answer. It didn't want the man to find out the cause of its distress because it knew he would be unable to make it better either way.
I am slowly beginning to understand the symbolism of this story. The daisy – the protagonist – must be Thirteen herself, closing itself to the world, since that is precisely what Thirteen is doing. Autobiographic characterization is also common in works of emotionally unstable individuals. If I am to take the possibility that all characters represent real life people in the fairytale into account, I have to discover the true meaning of the daisy's owner and also the sun, which confuse me so far. Might dr. Cameron be the sun? It's too early to tell, but it is my best best. The owner seems like a fatherly figure to the daisy, but the patient has never once mentioned her parents during our sessions. (Note: This is a long shot, but I suspect dr. Hadley has unfinished business with her mother or father and seeks their comfort (?). Ask her about them next time.)