← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · toddbrendanfahey
Thread ID: 17143 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-03-06
2005-03-06 16:32 | User Profile
[all photos copyright: Todd Brendan Fahey]
2005-03-06 16:34 | User Profile
Todd,
I'm glad to see you weren't washed away two months ago. Interesting photos.
2005-03-06 16:47 | User Profile
Sert.,
Thx. No, for the first time in seven (7) Christmases, I opted for some reason to not go to Thailand, and stayed in S. Korea. Can't help but thinking I was "warned away" from it.
Whether or not you (or anyone, here or elsewhere) believe it: The night before the tsunami hit, I had the most-rotten night's (non)-sleep of my life. I couldn't slip into that sleep-trough, no matter what I tried. And for several hours, I was experiencing very real heart fibrillations, and at one long point, a clenching in my chest (I'm only 40; was 39 at the time) and was pretty sure I was having a heart attack.
The next a.m., when I showered and left my apartment (on about 36hrs of non-sleep), I logged into a local Internet cafe and saw what had happened (and that was when the "death toll" was expected to be about 14,000...just the beginning of the search and assessment efforts).
I have never pretended to be a Christian. I call myself a mystic (as that is what I am).
Best, TBF
2005-03-06 16:53 | User Profile
Todd,
I understand about the other thing. Sorry to hear about the heart and I hope you have nothing like that happen again.
2005-03-07 11:30 | User Profile
Sert.,
As far as I know, my heart is fine (BP is a little high: avg. 130/90, but I drink a lot of coffee, and my sleep schedule sucks at-present). That said, I've run a treadmill test recently w/ EKG monitors, and the MDs said I'm healthy as a horse.
Liver function tests indicate slight fatty deposits, consistent with as much booze as I've drank over the years--but nothing abnormal.
Memory function tests by a shrink in Louisiana blew the doctor away. He'd never seen someone with a memory as photographic and retentive as mine: with or without a drug background.
I've been lucky. What I meant to say, concerning the night prior to the tsunami, is that I knew something was amiss. These things come to me periodically (I'll leave it for a biographer to tell the full details, as no one would believe me here). The heart palpitations and feeling of an impending coronary that night were a result of whatever it is that comes to me just prior to disastrous events or persons' deaths. The things I've experienced and that have been confirmed 1st-hand by persons around me at the time I experience them (and then having read the news the next a.m. in newspapers or heard it on radio or TV) have put ze chills in many.
I'm a weird cat.