WEEKEND IN THE ER
Written at: 9:59 p.m. on July 24, 2003

Friday

A friend of a chick I knew from a while back was having a party at this place I know in DC. See the place is owned by the church I used to go to and they rented it out from the party. N E Way, the girl went to Roosevelt and she was turning eighteen but a whole rack of people were there and I kinda felt young in that joint compared to some people. But, all in all it was fun! The DJ was a reggae Dj and he was on point. He played all da hott rydem and kept my booty shakin da whole night. Well, um…I swear on a stack of bibles the only thing I drank that night was water and lots of it. First of all I didn’t tell my aunt I was goin out. She figured since it was the weekend I would go to the mall or somewhere with one of my friends. But I was pushin it homie. I left my house at 11:30ish, and picked up my cousin. Then we rolled to the party which mind u was in North East DC so all the neighborhood hood rats was up in that joint. It was crazy when we got there cuz people was all over tha place. Then I didn’t get home till after four and my aunt came in from work like fifteen minutes later. Thank god, I thought cuz if I have gotten home after her, looking all sweated out the way I did, and smellin of ganja and everything else she might have had a heart attack. But I got up to pick my moms up from work around 7 and I was tired but I was cool. I went back to sleep a lil later

Saturday

When I woke back up it was like 10am and I was working on like 4 hours of sleep but I was cool for about 30 minutes. Then, I don’t know what it was but my body just failed. My head was beatin, my stomach was doin back flips, I was up-chucking like I don’t know what!. It was crazy!! Then I was layed da fuck out, my body was shaking, my vision was messed up, everything. Well, by 11:30 they rushed me to the ER. After hours of IV medications, tests, and blood drawn, they said it was migraines and sent my ass home at about 7 pm.

NOW

I keep sitting down and thinking about how much I hate the way shyt is around me. But in reality, I owuldnt have it any other way. Im about to be 19, im in my muthafuckin prime cuz I want my WHOLE LIFE TO BE MY PRIME. Im tryna enjoy every moment as if it were my last! Ive stopped bytchin and just started lovin life!!!

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