Only at death's door, Max. That's an adventure: & it seems youre safe from hard drugs...
I enjoyed the narrative movement....
Doug
On Feb 12, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mercy Dash
>
>
> It was only the side-effect
> of my first-ever codeine dose
>
> for back pain - the pharmacist
> (but not my GP) had said
>
> Take care, some people feel
> nauseous taking codeine. Nauseous!
>
> I leant over the bathroom basin
> making much noise and splashing,
>
> starting at six p.m.,
> still going at midnight,
>
> with intermissions when
> I said It's over now.
>
> Impatient, my wife spoke to
> triple 0 emergency -
>
> the nurse listened and questioned.
> No, she said not an ambulance,
>
> we'll send you a cab.
> I put on my dressing gown
>
> and packed a few things.
> We waited under the trees
>
> in St Kilda Road while cabs
> uncountable passed, some
>
> for hire, but no, the booked cab
> after an hour had not come.
>
> Well, I was feeling better!
> why not just go back up to bed?
>
> It was one a.m. - a cab took us
> the two blocks to Alfred Hospital
>
> Emergency. A quiet Monday evening.
> No, said the reception nurse,
>
> not an allergic reaction,
> just a side-effect. Should you
>
> wait to see the doctor,
> he will say the same. We waited.
>
> He did. We asked for painkiller.
> He brought two mild tablets,
>
> and a prescription. Quick cab home.
> And that was the end of it all.
>
> Codeine suits others - not me.
> Next night walking in the park
>
> with dog and wife, we sight, as it
> lifts off from the hospital helipad,
>
> their air ambulance - loud, scary,
> quick to rise, swivel about, vanish
>
> beyond the high rise apartments.
> Another time, may I do it in style.
>
Douglas Barbour
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