Weird, scary stuff happening last week.
I had (still have) an infected finger (acute paronychia, I believe), the end swelled up to about three times its size. I was at Ed’s and, well, rather stoned (after a couple of weeks of healthy-living detox). It was too painful, so I grabbed one of Ed’s scalpel blades, disinfected it, and tried slicing into my finger under some running water. Couldn’t get any pus out. I kept trying, still no luck so I gave up and stuck a plaster over it.
Over the course of the evening, my finger got more and more painful, it seemed to double in size every half-hour and was throbbing like mad. I went to bed around 3am, very stoned and in agony. I tried to sleep, propping my hand up above me to minimise the bloodflow and ensuing agony. No such luck - I couldn’t sleep. Pulse, pulse, pulse, thump, thump - it felt like my entire arm was infected and pumped full of pus.
After about half-an-hour, I went to the toilet, felt very fuzzy-headed on my way there, felt way too stoned when I got there, sat on the toilet but felt sick, slumped down onto the floor (think I may have bumped my head on the way), my head fuzzed over, everything went into little dots. After an unknowable amount of time I tried standing up - it went fuzzy again and I think I fell over again. Eventually I decided I’d got as much benefit as I could from lying on the cool bathroom floor, and perhaps I was all better now, so I got up to walk back into Ed’s studio. I don’t know what happened next, but I remember Ed lifting me up, saying “are you OK, you’re white as a sheet”, and trying but failing to stand up, and noticing I had blood coming out of my nose, and Ed carrying me back into his room, lying me down with a wet flannel over my head. Suddenly everything felt much, much better - pleasant even. I was alive again. I dozed off very quickly.
When I woke up in the morning the flannel was still there, covering my whole face.
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