File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 997


From: "danceswithcarp" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Top Anarchist Events of the Century
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:46:19 -0500


Cry me a river, kid.  Times are bad all over.


carp


From: <Chaos912-AT-aol.com>

> $2,500~ stocks inherited from my grandmother.  Really is a blast to hold
> someone's balmy hand all night as their lungs fill up with liquid and
their
> ravaged with pain from chemotherapy.  Waiting 2 fucking months for someone
> you grew up with to die, knowing its only a matter of time
> $8,000~ Working near minimum wage all summer.  Giving up part of my youth
> working 60 hours a week just so I could have a car going back to school.
Not
> fun but do ya think 60 hours a week for 3 months is worth at least that?
> $5,000~ The rest of my working -AT- near minimum wage
> $1,500~ Money set up for me to go to college by my grandparents
> $225,000~ A fund set up by an insurance company just in case anything
should
> happen to go wrong with my health.  I was 8 and hit by a car going 45mph.
> Right side of the back of my head.  Broke the side view mirror on the car.
> My 60lb. body bounced off the concrete after being flung forward upwards
of
> 20 feet. Airlifted out of Central Dupage Hospital to Loyola Hospital
clinging
> to life.  I was in a coma for almost 3 weeks and then couldn't even
remember
> my name let alone write it (the memory is primarily located in that part
of
> the brain.)  The days I spent crying because I had to attend a
rehabilitation
> center to relearn everything I was taught and couldn't attend 3rd grade
with
> all my friends.  They weren't even going to let me pass third grade.  The
Dr.
> said I had a one in ten chance of ever reaching the level I was at.  They
> gave me a test to admit me back in to school.  As a 9 year old (accident
was
> July 25, 1991 & my b-day's in September) I passed -AT- a high school level.
I
> went back to school but couldn't play outside all that year because they
> feared I would injure  my head.  There's permenant scaring on my brain and
I
> still have seizures occasionally that last only seconds.  My head is
forever
> slightly swollen and so is my foot.  Is that worth that money?
> Chaos


   

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