May 2022 after a long flight from Bangkok I was stricken by delusions from a severe attack of hepatic encephalopathy. Brilliant hallucinations and dull brain fogs. My brain was not in this world and Francis X drove me to the hospital. The doctor tried to explain that my mind had been poisoned by ammonia and I kept saying,"Why is linoleum in my head?"
After finally understanding what had happened, the doctor in the OR asked if I wanted to sign a DNR.
"DNR?"
I somehow deciphered the acronym a Do Not Resuscitate.
"No signature and no God and no Oxys."
They put me out with propofol and I drifted into a white limbo.
I came to clear-headed.
Glad to be rid of the linoleum
And the ammonia.
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