Celerity
shape without form, shade without colour
- Jan 24, 2021
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I'll go first.
Apparently, at age 3 or 4 I ate rat poisoning, and they had to pump my stomach. The whole universe sighed in disappointment that day. So close and yet so far.
When I was 21 or 22, I was almost struck in a head-on collision on the highway. These girls had gotten drunk on the beach during Memorial Day and came across the median in a huge plume of dirt. Had I stayed with the pack of cars behind me instead of driving full speed ahead at 85 mph, I would have been nowhere near them, and it wouldn't have been such a close call. I didn't even fishtail, and they somehow escaped with minor injuries despite flipping the car.
I was 24. The doc prescribed Trazadone for sleep. It helps a lot of people. Unfortunately for me, dependent as I had been on Ambien, I required the maximum dosage topped with booze to get any sedative effect. Well, one time, I overdid it and ended up triggering a rare cardiac arrhythmia called Torsades de Pointes in which my heart did its best impression of a drum roll. For the next 4 hours, I stayed awake in my childhood bed wondering if I was going to die.
Unfortunately, as you can see, I narrowly escaped death for a third time.
Apparently, at age 3 or 4 I ate rat poisoning, and they had to pump my stomach. The whole universe sighed in disappointment that day. So close and yet so far.
When I was 21 or 22, I was almost struck in a head-on collision on the highway. These girls had gotten drunk on the beach during Memorial Day and came across the median in a huge plume of dirt. Had I stayed with the pack of cars behind me instead of driving full speed ahead at 85 mph, I would have been nowhere near them, and it wouldn't have been such a close call. I didn't even fishtail, and they somehow escaped with minor injuries despite flipping the car.
I was 24. The doc prescribed Trazadone for sleep. It helps a lot of people. Unfortunately for me, dependent as I had been on Ambien, I required the maximum dosage topped with booze to get any sedative effect. Well, one time, I overdid it and ended up triggering a rare cardiac arrhythmia called Torsades de Pointes in which my heart did its best impression of a drum roll. For the next 4 hours, I stayed awake in my childhood bed wondering if I was going to die.
Unfortunately, as you can see, I narrowly escaped death for a third time.
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