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At first, I thought that questionable taste to write this blog, as Jim Jedlicka was about to enter the "Big Sleep". Jim's wife, my sister Linda assured me that given Jim's sense of humor, he would aprove of my contribution.( to be continued....)
"Martin's Meltdown"
Thucydides the famouse Greek statesman, historian, and seaman wrote in the 4th century B.C. quoted a collision at sea can ruin your whole day. Some events foretell the impending arrival of more than an ordinary "bad hair day".
I knew I was in for one of these when I woke up in the hospital tied securely to my bed.
I thought I was in a scene from the movie"Bull Durham", a movie about baseball in which Susan Sarandon plyas the "High Priestess" of the church of baseball. And she ties Tim Robbins to the bed and keeps him up all night reading him poetry.
Unfortunately, Susan Sarandon had not tied me to my bed.
And my choice of poetry would have been "Charles Bukowski"certainly not "Lord Byron".
It turns out that I had been lying in bed unconscious for 2 days
and had been in a coma.
The last I remember was that I went to the toilet at my home bleeding like an ebola virus victim. I was experiencing severe leg muscle spasms. The next thing I knew I was looking into the eyes of a smiling nurse who seemed happy that I was conscious.
A short time later my wife and son came to my bedside, but I was not sure who anyone was.
For some reason, I thought I was in Mexico and I couldn't figure out why all the pretty senoritas were speaking to me in Japanese.
It seems that the ammonia balance in my brain was way out of kilter.Ammonia helps stabilize your mental functions and if it is too out of balance you can go berserk. I wasn't accustomed
to this state of mind, having gone bersek before.
I regained my bearings well enough to realize that something very unsual had befallen me.(to be continued....)
