Let me start off by saying that I'm not real positive about anything anymore, but I think that it is only fair that I try to explain what happened, and what seems to be happening now. If that statement doesn't make sense, hang in there, because I'll try to explain.
It was about two years ago now and I was sixty-seven years old. I was playing racquetball at our local YMCA when my foot stuck on the floor and the rest of my body went flying forward. The next thing I remember I was riding in the back of an ambulance and I heard an emergency medical technician speaking into a radio.
"I have an older Caucasian male," he said, "I have no indication of a pulse and he appears to have suffered a sever head contusion."
"I'm not dead! Check the pulse again, you idiot!!! What the fuck's the matter with you? I've got a heart beat, check it out." I remember shouting all this, just as plain as day. I didn't understand why he wouldn't listen to me.
When I woke up next I was in a dark room with a window off to my left. I knew that I wasn't at home because the window in my bedroom was off to the right and behind my head. I had a little bit of a headache, but I couldn't feel any lumps anywhere. Next thing I knew the bed shifted and I felt my wife's leg brush against mine. I could not quite figure out where I was or why we were here, but I rolled over and spooned up against my wife's back.
Now at this point we had been married for forty-seven years, and this was not my wife's back! The woman next to me was naked! My wife had never slept naked in her entire life. This person was more than a few pounds lighter than my wife, (not that my wife is fat or anything). This person had a narrow waist and wide hips and was backing up against the instant erection that I had somehow sprouted. I have not had an instant erection for longer than I care to remember.
Now, I'm not normally considered a dirty old man (at least not by everybody I know, maybe a few but most assuredly not everyone). My hand and arm went around this woman and I felt a strange (well not strange in that it was weird or anything, just different than any that I was used to fondling) breast.
This person kept grinding her backside into me and you know the next thing that happened is that we're going at it hot and heavy. I hadn't had an experience like this since Gomer Pyle was a regular on TV.
After longer than I would have believed it possible for me to have such continuous fun, I finally collapsed and rolled off of this stranger. The next thing that happened was that I awoke to find this strange woman atop me and we were doing it again. Man, twice in just a few hours was more than this old man could handle, but I managed to do justice to the male species and carried on until the end. The woman got up and ambled off toward some other part of the house having twice stolen my life juices and energy.
The sun was up, so I figured I should get up too. I would have taken bets that even if I had tried, I couldn't have gotten it up again, but you know what I mean. I took a leak in the bathroom and found a toothbrush and was using it when I looked into the mirror.
"Holy shit! I yelped as I grabbed the sink with both hands.
The stranger in the mirror was not I. I mean, it was someone else. I was somebody that I had never seen before. I had always been just an average looking guy. He looked like a guy that was in fairly good condition and about forty years younger than I was yesterday. But it was not I. I was me, or I, however it is supposed to be written. That image was not the sixty-seven year old guy that I had been. I didn't know whom it was or how I was going to find out.
I looked around the bathroom to see if the real me was hiding somewhere, but the only person there was this stranger that looks back at me in the mirror. I stifle a scream and sit down on the only seat available in the room. At his point I wished that I had remembered to put the lid down. I slowly stand up and take another peek into the mirror and find that the same strange looking dude is still looking back at me.
I leave the bathroom and head out toward another part of the house. I find the sexy woman that I had the encounters in the bed with, standing by the sink in the kitchen. She turns as she hears me enter and looks me up and down. The way she is standing, the sun shining through the window shows off her figure through her light dressing gown. I hadn't bothered to put on any cloths, and I start to sport signs that I find her body attractive.
"Man," she says, "Here you are trying to sprout another woody after last night. You haven't given me that much action since before we got married. What's gotten into you?'
I didn't know what to say. Obviously, I am this woman's husband, and she is the wife of this guy who I am.
"Sit down," she says, "I'll fix you some breakfast before you go off to work."
I sit down and try to relax. I let my mind slowly try to think through what has happened.
All of a sudden this voice says, "Man do I ever have a hang-over, and I don't even remember drinking anything last night."
"You did all right by me sweetie," the woman says. "I have no complaints about last night. What ever it was that brought this on, do it every night."
The man and the woman carried on a conversation for awhile, and after breakfast, he/we got up and went back into the bedroom and got dressed. He/we put on a uniform that identified him/us as an emergency medical technician. He/we went back into the kitchen and poured himself/ourselves another cup of coffee.
Then he commented to his wife; "I picked us this old fart at the YMCA last night. I can't believe an old guy like that, he must have been seventy-five or eighty at least, and believe it or not he was playing racquetball. Anyway, he tripped or something and crashed headfirst into one of the walls. He was dead before we got him to the hospital."
"That's really sad," the woman responded.
"It was a really strange experience." I was calling in the information that the guy didn't have a pulse, and the old shit-head sat up and grabbed me around the upper body with both hands. He than fell back lifeless on the stretcher. It was a really scary and weird situation. I can't explain it, but it almost feels like the guy is inside of me."
"That doesn't make sense." She said. "I think you're working to hard, and you should try and take some time off."
They carried on for awhile and I just listened. If this guy thought that he felt a little strange let him try to think about how I was feeling.
He got in his car and started driving away. I could see everywhere we were going, and I knew that we were heading towards the hospital. We passed the Junior High School where my kids had gone to school, and ended up in the parking lot behind the hospital.
As he/we were walking up the back steps we ran into Dr. Carl Bennington, MD. I knew Carl from back when I was a member of Rotary. Carl was a general practitioner I think. He was fairly young, maybe in his early forties.