The first six weeks in the hospital were largely hallucinations - either from the temporary coma or the morphine, fentanyl, and ketamine I was given to ease the pain. My mind couldn’t shake it, and I lived in a completely different world.

It veered into reality sometimes, and I would try to communicate. This, I just found, is from my notes at the time. I was trying to tell a story that happened to me and Julie.

Unable to type on my laptop, I used an American bluetooth keyboard that had somehow been set to French keys, with French autocorrect. Imagine the Zs are Ws, the Qs are As, and the commas are Ms, and you can almost begin to make out some words…

This is exactly as I typed it back then.

In this dream, it started serenely. My dad qnx sister and I entered to see a movi: it re,inf desminging ,e of q une railway sttqtion:

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So ze ended up up by an old cabin; playing zèbre sex go,es: still didnt^knoz there sas q sur: the folks left in the ,owning: I SEQRRCHED THE CITY FOR SUPPMIES BU THN PLQYED GQ,ES QT THE BQR
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Ho,e I ,et q child Zhou could touch burning things and zqnted to: he zags scared: I realised there as q civil Zara and took hi, ho,e to he cabin: Julie zqs asleep; it zqs full. Of kids cooking and eating twigs; but feeding the rodents: there aère questions fro, n’exfolia door and q fat old couple zith zith huge guns and q stronghold: he he asked ,e zho I zqs; if if I zqs q de,n liberal: I used the right n’a,es of the old folks I knew in reamah: ,ost aère dead:
He finally said to bring the kids over and to bring the, and gin:

To ,y regret; I only had cheap zhikdey: the lady of the house took Julie qeqy; and I looked qt the kids; d’être,Inde to protect the, no ,tater zhqt it costs

So,e ,recentriez; showed up then; cased the place; zqnted to buy it: he said he should talk zith , I just looked qt the kids and shrugged; knowing q lot zqsn^t up to ,e and I had to cal,l’y use ,y zits q,d old friends des to live there:

Now, if only I can interpret this… and I almost can… I will have a great story for you.