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Gnarly Beard


The Emergency Room was quite different from what it had been years ago when I was last there. I try to never go there. Now there's a security desk and a metal detector that one must pass thru. I'm cool with that. The badged guy says, 'Gnarly beard, man.' And I agreed. I mean, what do you say, thanks? So weird sometimes when people point it out.

I don't like going anywhere close to a hospital unless absolutely necessary. I could never do what my wife does, go into the eye of the germ tornado on a daily basis for hours and hours breathing in that air, touching all that stuff and junk. Nope, not for me!

And while I'm in the ER all I can hear is all the coughing and words like pneumonia and stuff like that. One of the nurses said, yeah, everyone is sick around here, so I then put on a mask and played the waiting game. One of them said to me, you've got your robe on backwards, I simply stated I liked it that way - and so it was.

Got poked and prodded and dotted a lot of i's before they let me go, but no answers. My wife thinks it might be Lyme disease or something to that nature. I do get a lot of insect bites rolling around in the dirt with my camera. It is the suffering that comes along with what I do. I think in this pic I had about 40 or so bites all over my body from one single day.


Who knows what's going on. I've just had such a lack of energy that all I want to do is sleep all the time. She tested me for mono, which came up positive, but at the ER I was tested again and it came up negative. Whatever. I'm awake now, at 5:15 AM and going to go with it until I can't write anymore. Have a fridge full of cold Coronas minus the virus to ease into the morning....

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