Beep…….. beep…….. beep…….. beep…….. I am 14. It’s quiet I’m in a hotel hospital room I’m lying on my back propped up in bed, a 45° angle I can feel the bed underneath me really really hard under my hips and my legs feel strange my ankles don’t feel present at all I try and move my legs move a little bit but my ankles almost to my toes and half way up to my knee are completely numb. I start to panic, I recently had lung surgery so I have tubes sticking out of me and wires and IVs.…
Feeling Alive in NH
Originally drafted 2004 08 13 running up the mountain, then down it again… I felt like I could do anything. I wanted to run more. This is regarding the hike up the mountain in NH I did with Justin. Nicole did not come with me, but I remember telling her about it when I got home from that trip. Ticket from the ranger, lots of drinking. It was an old fashioned good time. I got to hand it to him, I wouldn’t have had half my adventures without that guy.