Becoming A Son by David Labrava

Author:David Labrava [Labrava, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-02T23:00:00+00:00

“Well I thought about it. You can’t come in here till you get that needle out.”

“Come on. Don’t be like that.”

“ Nope. You can die at any minute. We talked about it when you were gone.”

“Who’s we?”

“Everyone here. You can drop dead at any minute and just cause you don’t get it, we do. If you drop dead here then they will close this place for sure. We don’t want to have to dispose of your body. You gotta go.”

I knew if she wanted to she could get some of the other people living there to help her throw me out. She wasn’t really my girlfriend or anything. We just shacked up together sometimes.

The hospital was across town so I walked there stopping in every nook and cranny to shoot up along the way. I figured I would hear what the doctor had to say. I was sure there was nothing they could do about it.

I walked into the emergency room and it was jam packed. Standing room only. And it was three in the morning. I waited in line to speak to the head nurse. I was about ten people back. Everyone was getting a number and being told to find a seat. Every seat in the place had some one sitting in it. It took about twenty minutes until it was my turn.

“What’s your problem?” The nurse asked me.

“I got a needle stuck in my neck.” She looked at me like I was joking, then she realized I wasn’t.

“How did you do that?”

“I mixed up Heroin and Cocaine in a spoon, heated it, put in a filter and drew it up to stick in my jugular vein. The only problem was that the syringe was so old and dull that it broke when I tried to get a vein.” Her mouth was stuck open.

“The only problem? Honey, you got more problems than that. ORDERLY!” As soon as she screamed orderly two guys came out wearing hospital scrubs.

“Take him to x-ray immediately.” The two orderlies sat me down in a wheel chair and wheeled me away. They backed me inside and the nurse looked at me.

“You got insurance?”

“Homeless.” I said.

“I’ll send the social worker. NEXT.”

They took me to x-ray and took pictures of my neck. After that a nurse came over put me right on an I’V drip.

“You really do have a needle in your neck.” She said. “But don’t you worry. Doctors gonna fix you right up. We have the best surgeons in the state.”

“I gotta have surgery?”

“How else you think they gonna get that needle out? Magic? You just relax.”

They put me on something in the IV because I started to mellow out. There were three doctors all younger than me looking at my x-rays. They were kind of arguing.

“I’m gonna do it.” One said.

“No I am.” Said another.

“You aren’t even on schedule today.”

I waited till there was a break and I looked at one of the Doctors.

“Why does everyone want to do the operation?” I asked. The doctors looked at me like I was dirt.

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