I went through the windshield after I hit the pickup.I went through the windshield after I hit the pickup. Witnesses say that I impacted on the flat bed's side panel and bounced across the street. I don't remember anything at all. I do remember the Hospital. First as a blur. Lots of people coming and going, prodding me, poking, sticking me with needles. I was in traction, arms and legs casted and pulled up at odd angles. I slept a lot. Sheila was great. Sheila De Ville was my fiance. I'd just met her when it happened. We had a whirlwind romance and the doctors told me she came to the Hospital every day. She seemed so concerned, they said. I was just glad for the company. It was during the surgery on my knee that my susceptibility to a weird side effect first became known. I was under a local anesthetic boosted by sodium pentothal. The surgeon asked for assistance, for someone to hold out their arm to allow him to blot his brow. |