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Preface to Chapter 10

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Cahalan, Susannah. Brain on Fire. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012. Paperback.

• In the Preface, Susannah Cahalan shared a description of waking up in the hospital and not knowing where she was.

• She noticed a hospital bracelet on her wrist that said “FLIGHT RISK” (xiv).

• In Chapter 1, Susannah woke to find two bites on her arm that she assumed were from bedbugs.

• She had an exterminator check her apartment.

• When he told her there were no bedbugs, she still thought the apartment was infested and requested that the apartment be sprayed anyway.

• Susannah worked at The Post, where she had started as an intern at age 17 seven years ago.

• Susannah asked her co-worker and friend Angela if she knew anything about bedbugs.

• Then Susannah was called in the office of Steven, the new Sunday editor...

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