Chainsmoking on the Porch
Flashback to the teenage years of chainsmoking on the porch of an old apartment. Marlboro Reds and Blacks. Best friend used to call Reds “cowboy killers”. Two best friends, girlfriend at the time, and my brother in foldable chairs and wooden stools.
Mg Papi/BSO Papi/BowTied Mg 🪷
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Flashback to chainsmoking on the porch of an old apartment during my teenage years.
— Mg Papi/BSO Papi/BowTied Mg 🪷 (@Grimhood) March 5, 2023
Marlboro Reds and Blacks. Best friend used to call Reds “cowboy killers”.
Two best friends, girlfriend at the time, and my brother in foldable chairs and wooden stools. -
We were shooting the shit while I was sitting next to my best friend. She reached for her water bottle and began to take a sip.
— Mg Papi/BSO Papi/BowTied Mg 🪷 (@Grimhood) March 5, 2023
When she brought her arm up to tilt the water bottle, she began pouring it on herself while her right arm was spasming in the same pattern repeatedly. -
I asked her what the fuck she was doing and she turned her head and torso to look behind her and fell forward into the metal railing. I immediately recognized it as a seizure despite only seeing them firsthand couple times prior.
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I caught her before she launched through the railing onto the concrete below. She probably had around 60 lbs on me, give or take.
— Mg Papi/BSO Papi/BowTied Mg 🪷 (@Grimhood) March 5, 2023
I recall entering a deep calm awareness that I later identified as a flow state. This occurs every time I encounter a high adrenaline situation. -
Other friend, girlfriend, and brother were panicking. I set her down gently on her side with my flannel beneath her head until she finished seizing.
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Other friend called her mother and asked what we should do. I don’t recall exactly what happened next, but I believe she got picked up and likely taken to the hospital to see if she suffered a concussion with the enormous bruised lump on her forehead.
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This was way before I learned how to intervene in and prevent seizures, and her epilepsy along with my own was a major driver in learning how to do so for me.
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She thanked me profusely once she gathered herself, and we got back to our normal shenanigans that she should not have been partaking in, but insisted anyway despite our complaints otherwise.
— Mg Papi/BSO Papi/BowTied Mg 🪷 (@Grimhood) March 5, 2023