Nightmare
Posted By Russ Emerson on September 4, 2004 at 1:51 am
The last 24 hours have sucked. Side effects from the gout medication were awful. I think I spent 16 of the last 24 hours in the bathroom. (But it’s still better than the gout.)
Then, I ran a fever all afternoon and evening; I finally broke it about half an hour ago with the assistance of sweatshirt, sweatpants, slipper-socks, and four heavy blankets. I’m still drenched with sweat.
I think I might just survive.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t slept more than 6 of the last 48 hours. I did drift off this evening, though, and had the weirdest dream.
It was the last night of the GOP Convention, and as all the delegates were preparing to return to their hometowns, a bio-weapon with a long incubation time was released by terrorists.
How my dream-self knew this was the case is beyond me; dreams are weird.
I don’t remember the middle of the dream, except that it involved force fields subdividing the continent to contain the plague; dreams are weird.
My fever broke, and the dream ended with the cities of Teheran and Damascus incinerated; dreams are weird.
And scary.