Toxin Book Report

I am reading Toxin by Robin Cook and I am on page 222. This portion of the novel is about a cardiac surgeon named Kim. Kim seems to be found in a mid life crisis, recently being divorced, and struggling to pay for his house and other prized belongings. He also has a young daughter named Becky, and since he is divorced he doesn’t get much time to spend with her. After finishing a operation on a patients heart, Kim headed over to his ex-wife’s house to pick up his daughter Becky, because it was his turn to look after her. Becky wanted to eat at a restaurant called Onion Ring, a fast-food restaurant. They ate burgers there, and Becky noticed her burger was medium rare. Kim told her that that was how he always ate his burgers as a kid. The next morning, Becky was not feeling so good she had stomach cramps. Kim told her it must just be from the fast food they ate the night before at Onion Ring. Though Becky’s symptoms stayed, she even through up a bit and had diarrhea. Kim asked people around at his work what was causing this and everyone said food poising. Soon Kim and his family find out that she has E. …show more content…
Y- Becky and her sickness
R- Doctors think sickness is something else
- Originally thought she just had stomach flu
- They then thought she had food poisoning
- She ended up having E. coli
R- What happened in turn of not knowing what she had
- She suffered from much pain while nobody helped
- Doctors had hard time fixing her after they found out because it progressed so much
- She eventually died because of this
Y- Me and my sickness
R- Got limes disease
- Got it in Canada
- A small tick infected me by biting me
- Sickness went into my bloodstream
R- Doctors thought it was a different sickness
- My doctor though that it was mono
- He diagnosed the sickness wrong
- The medicine he gave me was for mono so it had no