Someone Was Here by George Whitmore

Author:George Whitmore [Whitmore, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5507-8
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-10-08T21:48:00+00:00

6. GOING TO GO HOME

I TOOK HIM TO the emergency room about 1 or 2 a.m. and he had a lot of diarrhea and they put him on this stretcher and he was just full of diarrhea and they left him there for about half an hour. Finally, I told a nurse, ‘Why the hell don’t you change him? How would you like to lay in a pile of shit?’ is what I told her. He had taken an overdose of morphine and painkiller so they gave him something to counteract the medication, I don’t know what. He was in a lot of pain. He was just there screaming. He was in this diarrhea and they put a fan there to take away the smell. I told her, ‘Instead of getting rid of all that shit? What the hell is a fan going to do?’ He was in the emergency room. It was just a big room where they have curtains. Finally they cleaned him up and put him in his room.

When the time came for him to go home, the doctor and the hospice nurse and I talked about it. They wanted him to make a contract to see if he would exercise, get out of bed—get up at a certain time in the morning, take a shower, comb his hair, go for a walk, or whatever. And they told him that if he didn’t agree to sign this contract that they wouldn’t let him come home, he would have to stay in the hospital. They thought if they made this contract with him it would bring him out of the depression he was in, because he was real depressed—in order to get him to want to live.

So we made up this contract and he signed it and he was really mad at me.

When he went back home that last time he said, ‘I just want to die. I’m not going to try anymore. Not you or Dr. Jennings, not nobody is going to make me eat or do what they want if I don’t want to do it.’

He said he just signed the contract so he could come home, it was not that he was going to keep it.

I told him, ‘Mike, I don’t know what to do with you. You can’t lay in bed and not take a bath. You have an odor anyway as it is.’

I don’t know, it’s a certain odor that they have. I don’t know what it is. They get this odor like death.

And he had gotten this one check and I told him, ‘You have to help us with some of these bills we’re behind on.’ But he wasn’t about to part with that $500. I said, ‘You’re going to have to pay some rent, help us pay the rent and at least buy extras, things that you want to eat—maybe you’ll feel better.’

And he said no.

And I said, ‘I’ll buy you some clothes’—because he didn’t have any clothes and stuff. Finally he agreed that he should have clothes.

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