It’s 4am and I’m physically incapable of sleep, due to the monsters that reside under my eyelids as well as the constant feeling that I am suffocating. I’m constantly clearing my throat and talking to myself quietly to verify that my airways aren’t fully clogged—because as I was taught in my first aid merit badge, speech means that you are breathing (hence the first step in the Heimlich maneuver)—meanwhile I’m trying not to wake up my stepfather who is one door away.
I would drink water, however the local water source is simply not potable. Because of the fact that there’s literally no other possible liquid I can safely drink right now, I have had to deal with the whole song and dance of making tea in the dark. I was pouring the boiling water through a sieve to do a combination kill-and-segregate to the bacteria in the water, all while holding my phone in my mouth to use as a light source.
My prescription is -5.75 and I am without my glasses with no lights on. I both can and can’t see thanks to being freaking glasses-less but also having great night vision and nothing feels real.
Can’t have shit in Detroit.