Drugs are Bayyyad

[botias]

I was looking in the local paper, trying to get information about an associate of an associate who was shot to death in their home over the weekend. I couldn't find anything, but this public service message caught my eye:

Police Report Rash of Bad LSD Trips

It started on April 18, when officers responded to a residence to help Ambulance personnel with a 31-year-old man who had just castrated himself. Medics and officers couldn't find the man's testicles, according to APD, and he later told police that he'd flushed them down the toilet because they contained “monsters.”

:|

And the rain she's still a pourin' down. On Sunday I made four trips to the hospital, not arriving home to stay until after 2 a.m. on Monday. That would be tiring enough, but... A lot of the time I feel honored to witness people welcoming new life, a new sprout on the family tree, new moms exhausted but empowered by running the gauntlet that is birth and emerging on the other side. But chance is not always kind, and those times can be bad. I've managed to get one plant into the soil with each sunny day, though. Little by little, and I know summer will be here soon.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Aaaah! That first story has me grimacing in horror.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I know! Some people really can't be trusted to wear their gonads on the outside. :O :O :O

[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's an interesting mix of subjects! But that's life, isn't it?


A lot of the time I feel honored to witness people welcoming new life, a new sprout on the family tree, new moms exhausted but empowered by running the gauntlet that is birth and emerging on the other side. But chance is not always kind, and those times can be bad. I've managed to get one plant into the soil with each sunny day, though. Little by little, and I know summer will be here soon.

This was heartbreaking, but very beautiful. I'm not quite sure if the plant analogy is meant to work on two levels, but since it's you -- I'm going to say yes.

*hugs you hard*

[botias.livejournal.com]

Life is! Thanks so much for the hug. *abandons all pretense of Zen acceptance and cries* OK! I'm alright. *adjusts my cuffs all 007*

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Drugs are bad, yo!

Nothing like seeing new life to make things seem better. SOunds like there was a bad one. I know how that can be, and I'm so sorry.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I'll stick with ice cream, I think. I do feel sorry for that man though, for whatever it was in his life that brought him to that place. Wow.

I'm sure you do. Thank you.