Previously on Will Someone Take This Body, I discovered my body donation documents expired about a quarter of a century ago.
However, I had a plan. First I needed to contact Barnes downtown and see if I could re-up. I described the situation to the coordinator of body donation there and he replied that day. Evidently Drs. Trotter and Cross were running their own body donation operation out of their research center, and the normal body donation people couldn't access their records.
I suspected that the doctors were long gone, but I obediently called the phone number and was connected with the Trotter MS Center at Washu. I immediately hung up and did the research, both doctors are deceased, but they named the MS center after Dr. Trotter. After a few rounds with their telephony system I determined the best way to ask my questions was to send them an actual letter in an envelope.
It's a pitiful little letter, an old lady pleading, "I have a spine for you ... Don't you want my brain?" Well, not overtly, but all my edits sounded like "I will just take my central nervous system and go home if you don't want it."
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