One of the most famous sequences in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/b> revolves around Raoul Duke reassembling events from the ruins of his hotel room and some garbled, incomprehensible audio tapes. This felt like that. If there had been a tape recording, it would have included me waking my animal from her place on the floor by screaming in my sleep, and my animal trying to get me to eat a glucotab, and pouring soda into my mouth, trying to get me to look at her, to come back. When I finally opened my eyes, there was a can of Coke on the dresser, along with about a dozen bloody finger sticks. I was soaked, the bed was utterly sodden, black with sweat. There were two total strangers in my bedroom. <\/p>\n
It was ten after four in the AM. <\/p>\n
“Am I dreaming this? Who are these guys? What are they talking about? They seem nice, but they seem concerned about something…” <\/i><\/p>\n
I saw the look on my animal’s face, and things started making more sense. She was talking to the EMT’s. She looked upset. And I was wet. All over. My eyes started to focus, and I staretd to get some idea of what was going on. The EMT’s were in my bedroom. Working on me. This was not<\/i> good. <\/p>\n
I had gone to bed about midnight, after an 11 hour stretch at work. Work had been tough, and tricky on the blood sugar. I felt like hell. Then- nothing, until I saw the EMT’s. <\/p>\n
This has never<\/b> happened to me before. The EMT’s told me that was pretty amazing, but I know why- it’s because I am trying to keep my blood sugar down now, so I am living much closer to the danger zone, which is much scarier than I ever knew.<\/p>\n
I’m here. I’m alive. I’m fine. <\/p>\n
I’m looking for a job that won’t make me sick. I have a friend I can forward my resume to, she has a friend who is interested. This morning when my animal asked me to describe how I felt, I told her that I felt like I had eaten poison- that all of me hurt, in a horrible, unspecified way. That feeling has passed, leaving me exhausted and sore, but OK. The bed is still wet- it looks like someone dumped a full trashcan of water over it, but it’s drying. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow I go back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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