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...August I was summoned by Dr. Obukhov, who told me that Andrei was gravely ill, with serious arrhythmia and profound disturbances in the brain vessels. They insisted that he could not be discharged from the hospital and that any visits from me would be dangerous to his health...
...next day Dr. Obukhov again called me in and said that Andrei was on the brink of death, that his extrasystole was very bad, that he was suffering from grave atherosclerosis in the brain vessels and that he either had Parkinson's disease or symptoms of it. And that I should not worry him. I yelled, saying that as doctors they should understand that a man in that state of health cannot be kept isolated for four months from the only available person dear to him; I also accused them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving...
...Obukhov implied that Andrei's treatment was not his fault, but he was a victim of circumstances. I walked out of the hospital. A nurse suddenly appeared, leading Andrei by the arm. He was wearing the same light coat in which he had been taken away in early May and his beret. It didn't seem as if he had lost weight; he looked almost bloated. We embraced, in tears. We got in the car. We just sat and wept with our arms around each other. About 20 minutes passed...
...Then Andrei began describing what had happened to him. He had kept a diary of everything. How they tormented him with talk that he had Parkinson's disease and how Dr. Obukhov brought him a book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...
...home, Andrei's condition was rather strange. On the one hand, he was very happy we were together again; we literally were not apart for a minute's time. On the other hand, he began berating himself for not continuing his hunger strike and for giving in to them. He had threatened another strike for Sept. 7, but when they discharged him he did not embark on it, unable to be apart from me any longer...