"Two times and it has rendered me. Punched, drunk and without bail. Think I'd be safer all alone. Flies in the Vaseline we are. Sometimes it blows my mind, keep getting stuck here all the time. Isn't you, isn't me, search for things that we can't see. Going blind, out of reach, somewhere in the Vaseline."
Stone Temple Pilots - Vaseline
"You don't sound like a dead man - Jesus, Scott, how many times is this now? One thing is for certain, I am glad to hear your voice buddy," the news I was following painted a bleak scenario. Scott was in the hospital with another life threatening illness. I was praying, just like everyone else, he would once again shake free of the Reaper's grip. And I'll be damned if he didn't do it - "I don't know how many times I have come back from the grave," he says, "I've lost count." His reply to my whimsical question instantly brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. Here's a guy who just a week prior was lying in a coma with scant hopes of things ever being normal again, or for that matter living, and now he was cracking jokes and being as wry as ever.
"You know how they say a picture is worth a thousand words?" I say to him, "The photo of Jon hunched over you with all those tubes running out of you was the most heart wrenching sight I think I have ever seen. And then when he said he was at peace with you going to heaven, man, that was love and courage. I don't know how to say this without sounding like an asshole, so I am going to just say it. It sounded as if the Reaper had you this go around my friend," he chuckles a bit after my statement and says, "Fortunately for me, he missed again."
We talk a little more and then I ask, "So what's the plan now? Do hospitals just let dead guys get up and walk out the door? How long do you have to stay there?" The two of us have developed a great chemistry the last few years. A chemistry that didn't exist when we were young. I am grateful for it - "I get discharged on the 26th, and then it's the 'road to recovery," he says, "The plan after that is to go home and be with family and friends. And when I am healthy enough again I will do some hunting," it was good to hear that...it was really good to hear that!
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