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Out of the Blue
Phone rings. It’s the Rogosin transplant clinic. “We wanted to tell you that your donor has passed screening so we’d like to make an appointment for you both to come…
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Arterial Addendum:
Thanks to everyone in The Network, the saftey-net-hive-mind that, for some reason, conspires to keep me alive and well. Had this been an actual emergency, it’s comforting to know you…
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Arterial Spray
So, as I am making dinner, I feel a little damp. I look down and note that my bandage from dialysis has come loose… and I am pumping a spray…
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A prayer to my Mother; a gift from a friend
“Bow to Mahakali if you see a vulture, a she-jackal, a raven, an osprey, a hawk, a crow or a black cat, saying: ‘O Origin of all, greatly terrifying one,…
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No Question
My life is full of gifts. “Lady I once knew told me a friend is someone who knew your own personal song and is there to sing it for you…
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Pain in my crippled ass….
Now my troubled TV has given up the ghost. Mother Fucker. Feh.
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:Dusts himself off:
OK, motherfuckers. Let’s do this.
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Crash and Burn
Nicole has been rejected; they will not let her donate her kidney. It’s over.
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The wheels of progress grind dreadfully slow…..
But at least they are turning again. The Swamp Witch and her plump, tasty kidneys are due here on the 23rd, her first appointment on the 25th. Now comes the…
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I have not been able to say this in a long time:
I had a good day, and thanks to my brothers, am going to bed happy. Thanks also to Sweetcandymike, who continues to win my respect. And to the jackass sitting…
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It’s Official
I am now listed on the nationwide “Gimme your fuckin’ kidney” network, which will allow Rogosin to go ahead and begin testing my donor. Hurry the fuck up, please.
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Listen Up, You Medevil Screwheads… THIS is my BOOM STICK!
: Cue music from “Brazil”:So, nothing happened. I jumped through the hoops, I juggled the chainsaws, gave blood, got irradiated, EKG, EEG, PDQ, yadda yadda yadda… Nothing. My co-ordinator who…