Okay, so to recap.. I have just woken up from being in a park.
It's September.
The setting in Oneonta, NY.
It's cold.
It's 1 am, and I am knocking on people's doors warning them about some kind of threat that I have no idea is. I then see a police officer in his car and I tell him I don't feel right.
He says, "Do you need to go to the hospital?"
I say, "I think so."
He says, "Okay, get in my police car and I'll drive you over."
Now, you have to understand. I was in a really strange state. Not quite sure what was going on with me but knowing I needed to do something about it. Another thing is when I ride with my mom in her car. I tend to sit in the front seat.... Yes, that is right. When the police officer said get in his car. I got into the front passenger seat. This not withstanding made him jumpy. "I meant get in the back." He said.
I said, "Sorry do you want me to get out?"
He said, "No, just don't touch anything,"
He proceeds to drive me about five city blocks to the main hospital. I walk in with him and I enter a room that has two doors. One is the one We came in thru and the other leads to another room.
The head nurse and an orderly asks first the cop and then me, "what is the problem?"
The cop says, "He says he needed to go to the hospital."
They look at me,
I say, "I just feel strange."
They ask, "Do you have family in the area?"
I say, "On Staten Island."
They get out a phone book, why they would have a NYC telephone book in of all places, Oneonta, don't ask me, and ask me to pick out my mother's name. I look and look and can't find it. Finally, I see her name but the last name is spelled differently. "Strange," I thought.
They call up my mom. They put me on the phone with her and she asks, "Is everything alright?"
I say, "I just feel weird." She gets on the phone with the head nurse and starts talking.
He decides to admit and gives me a sedative. Now, you have to understand. Here I am in a strange room in a strange hospital and they want to give me a shot of something. Now any normal person would have freaked out.
Which I of course did fighting with both the orderly and the head nurse. Unfortunately, I was over powered and given the sedative. I thought I was dying, The second time that night it seemed. Everything got blurry, and. I black out.
While I am blacked out,
Thinking back on this whole incident there was one other thing I forgot to mention. Remember, how I was trying to warn everybody about some kind of danger? (Back at the beginning of this chapter) And it was this danger that had made me run out of the park in the first place? It was years later when I remembered what exactly had happened in those moments. I remember being in a dark place with monsters and I had literally run past all of these creatures before waking up running to knock on people doors warning them of this danger. Why the blank spot in my memory? I don't know. All I know is if you see a bunch of monsters grinning at you, You'd run your ass off too!
Okay, so I wake up. I am on a medical bed and my shirt is gone. I have on a hospital gown. Luckily I still have my pants on. And All I hear are people moaning on the other side of a curtain. Turns out I was in the ER of the hospital. I had an IV filled with fluids and I was trying to get my barring. I start getting angry because from my point of view. They didn't need to knock me out (Making me think I was being killed) and take my shirt! Well, I wasn't going to have any of this. I pulled the IV out and then sat wondering which way led out? I decided to sit there and see if the nurse would return and what direction she would come from, to put the IV back in. Sure enough, she returned, reset my IV and left to the left of my bed. I muttered, "What is to the left of me?"
Luckily for me, a patient on the other side of the curtain gladly told me what was, "There is a doorway to your right it leads to the ER waiting room. Just don't turn left you'll end up at a wall."
That was enough fort me. I yanked out the IV again and walked very calmly out of the ER out to the ER Waiting room and out to the front of the hospital.
A nurse, panicking, "Yelled at me to stop."
I of course bolted. I was close to a set of houses and I figured if I stayed on the main street the orderlies would get me. So I hopped a few backyard fences and hid behind a house. I heard a siren go off for a while. And then nothing. It was then that I realized how cold it was.
The Hospital garb was like wearing nothing. At first I tried to figure out what to do. "I am cold? I need a place to stay warm."
I noticed an open door to the back of a house, Now, remember I was exactly in the right frame of mind. I rang the doorbell. No one came to the door. I stood in the inner vestibule of the door and tried to shield myself from the wind. It was then that I noticed a friend from college a house over. I told him, "I lost my shirt. Can I have one of yours to borrow. He said sure. He saw I was acting strange and said you need to get home. I think you have had one too many beers. (This is why they give you an admitting sedative.) I said, "Sure thanks."
He walked me over to the local bus and he made sure I got on it. The local city bus is basically there to help college students get from the college to the bars downtown. Its a symbiotic relationship. The school provides the students, the students, then pay and drink the beer from these bars. The need for a bus is because the college sits on a hill and no student wants to walk up that hill sober or drunk. Anyway. I am on the bus. I am determined to get back to the college. Only one thing stood in the way. That damn holy water construction line that was dug to keep me out.
The bus route happens to go right over this line and I having been killed twice already today and I am in no mood for a third. As the bus gets close, my fear factor goes up. Finally I give in and I get off one stop before.
So my progress has been from College, to park, to black out, to creatures, to hospital, to escaping hospital, on bus to college and now back to the park. God knows how long I was in the hospital because now it is day break. And I decide I need some food.
So I go to a local pizza and ask for some change. Don't ask me why or how I came up with this, but for some reason I felt that stores would be more inclined to give you change from their registers then keep it for themselves. (Look, I had had a rough night!) So I go in and ask for some change and the owner throws me out. Now I am hungry, thirsty, tired, and unsure as to what my next move should be. I see some old men playing basketball. I sit on a bench and watch them play. I suddenly have thoughts of, "This must be what the Greek gods used to do. They are up their in Heaven and they are playing basketball, deciding important issues by who wins. They see me watching them and they see I don't look right so..
Yes, you guessed it, they call an ambulance and it was off to another hospital.
To be Continued...
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