I went through so much with that old woman, Dude, I don’t know where to start. I was there at least three weeks. Maybe twice that. I was unconscious much of the time, in pain for all of it. I went through a period where I was sweating and shivering at the same time. I was unconscious for part of the time, but am aware of half-ways waking up at one point crying like a baby. My feet hurt so bad I couldn’t stand it. The sounds in my head and the images on the silver screen in my brain were too much. The old woman would make me drink some kind of potion and then I was out. There was no point at which I was unaware of the pain in my toes.
Mostly, I slept. At various times, the old woman would help me sit up in bed and make me drink tea or slurp down some soup. Somewhere along the line I had be
