Sunday, May 27, 2012

Status (or one night in the emergency room!)

By Jamie Sunday, March 14, 2010

   

The nurse tries to stick a catheter into warm pale flesh.

She shakes her head and pulls it out, only to try again.

 

She looks at my arms, my wrists, my hands

All of the scars from previous painful episodes

 

Other trips to this place

Other people sticking my now very scarred flesh.

A bad morning in checkbookland

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By Jamie— Last Modified: 12/09/10, First Published: 03/14/10