I awake with a start, in an unfamiliar but not unfriendly room, wondering where I am and how I had gotten there. I hear voices in the hallway outside and am about to call out when I realize there is someone asleep beside me -- again, unfamiliar but not unfriendly. I sit up, trying to remember the night before. Slowly the recollections come back -- this was Jeffrey's house (or his parents' house anyway, but he lived in it alone), and this was one of his bedrooms. Ah, then this must be one of his guests from... from whatever had happened last night. I'm still not too clear on that part. I figure if I retrace it, maybe it would come back, or at least I'd know where the trail went cold.
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I remembered a limousine pulling up to my door to pick me up. Though Jeff could be a little bit of a twit for his obvious financial advantages, he really wasn't a bad fellow. He had promised me a ride, but I thought he meant he'd come get me himself, or send one of his housekeeping staff to do it. Either way, I was expecting a Z4, not a limo the size of Cleveland.
I went to open the door, but to my surprise it opened with my hand in mid-air, reaching for the handle. Ah, I'm not the first pickup. There are five people already in there! It was dark in there, and I could smell the distinct aroma of really good cannabis wafting from the limo. I hoped the driver was keeping the divider up, or he'd be going 10 miles an hour for the rest of the trip!
I climbed inside, and Jeff was in the middle of the forward-facing seat, a girl on each arm. On the rear-facing seat were two other girls, obviously holding a place at the center for me! I smiled, tried not to look too embarrassed, and had a seat. The door closed -- by pushbutton no less -- and we were on our way.
"I told you I'd give you a ride, and I keep my promises!" He passed me a pipe and a lighter, and I gestured at the girl on his left.
"Isn't it her turn?" I asked, and both of them laughed. I shrugged and accepted it. I'm not Bill Clinton, and I did inhale.
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Okay, so that's how I got here... hmm, man I have to piss. I wonder if I can get up without waking... who is she? Was she one of the four girls in the limo? And why don't I have a hangover?
I climb out of the bed and stumble, and realize the reason I don't have a hangover is because I'm still drunk. Oh boy, I must have had fun last night. With a little assistance from the wall (why won't it stay straight up and down, dammit?) I make it to the bedroom's attached bathroom. Sunlight streams through the slightly opened window and I stare through that two inch portal into the blue morning sky as I sit to relieve myself. Out of habit, I reach to tuck my dick down and it hits me like a ton of bricks -- oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck!
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About four months prior, I had found a sore spot on the head of my penis. I took it to be a burn, from some rough sex the day before, but when it didn't improve over the next couple of days, I started to worry. After a week, it was worse. I had to get it checked out. The doctor cut out the now weeping area, about a quarter inch, stitched me up, wrote out a script for Vicodin, and sent me on my way. I made a point of getting to the pharmacy before the anesthetic completely wore off, and swallowed two of them in the car before driving home. I barely made it into the driveway before the world went all fuzzy.
I now had stitches in my glans, but I had no reason to be overly concerned about it. The doctor hadn't said much to worry me, but that would change.
Four days later, I get a call at work from the doctor, asking if I can move my follow-up appointment up a little. The follow-up would have been just another three days away, so I asked how much he wanted to advance it. He said, "Can you come in now? We have a problem."
I worried the whole way, but I finally made it to his office after about 45 minutes of your typical L.A. rush hour traffic. I walked in, signed in as usual, and without so much as a hello, the doctor had grabbed me by the upper arm and pulled me into an examination room. He closed the door.
"I'm afraid there may be a serious issue," he began. "Our autoclave has been acting up for weeks, but we just found out this morning that our instruments have not been getting sterilized. You may have an infection from equipment used on someone else, and we have to check it. Right now."
After the few seconds necessary for this to sink in, I numbly dropped trou and let him inspect. It didn't take very long.
"Not only have you developed an infection, but I believe this is exactly what I was afraid of. MRSA. We're going to have to get you into a hospital."
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