your leg.”
“Wait, you’re serious? I thought you were just messing around.”
“No, I’m dead serious, Pam,” Daniel answered. “That man’s mouth likely has more bacteria than the average person’s and that would be a considerable amount. We’re talking two or three weeks of daily treatment and then months to fully heal after that.”
The look on her face must have properly conveyed her feelings. “Look, it’s not all bad,” the doctor said. “You’ll get some paid vacation time from the department and you’ll get to see me four out of every seven days.”
“Gee, thanks,” she replied glumly. “When do we start?”
He picked up her chart and began writing. “We’ll have to start the debridement cycle tomorrow. One of the nurses will schedule your follow-up before you’re released today.”
“I can’t wait,” she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
*****
Pam hobbled along towards the restroom on the crutches that the orderly gave her. She wasn’t joking with the doctor; she really was in terrific shape. The department offered free Crossfit memberships to all of the officers and she flourished under the brutal workouts. However, the pain in her leg and the crutches made her feel like she was ninety.
Why are the bathrooms always so far away from the waiting area? she wailed inwardly. She finally made it and pulled out her phone before sitting down on the toilet to examine Andrew’s text message to her. Once he’d dropped her off at the emergency room, he disregarded her advice to talk to a doctor and took the crackhead down to the station, so she needed a ride home from the hospital.
She’d initially sent him a message asking if he could come by the hospital to pick her up and take her home since she didn’t trust driving with an injured right leg. He’d responded back to her in the strangest way. She brought up the conversation and read through it again.
ME: Can you pick me up? No car, can’t drive with bad leg.
ANDY: Sure np. Will be a while tho, IA here.
ME: Why is Internal Affairs there?
ANDY: Remember when I blacked out today?
ME: I’m sitting in the hospital b/c you blacked out.
ANDY: True, sorry. Blackouts happened all over LVPD.
ME: What do you mean?
ANDY: Hundreds of LVPD blacked out at same time.
ANDY: Car crashes, arrests, eating. Seems every officer on duty had problem.
ME: Not me.
ANDY: How’d you get bitten?
ME: You let perp get up.
ANDY: Do you remember it happening?
ME: OMG, I don’t. Did I black out too?
ANDY: No idea, but if you didn’t, you’d be only one.
ANDY: I’m next to speak to investigator, see you soon.
ME: Ok. Thank you.
She thought about it for a moment and then pulled up the internet on her phone’s web browser. A quick search brought up a few paragraphs about the incident, but it was so new that there wasn’t much meat to the story.
Las Vegas—(AP) Yet another strange and tragic occurrence happened in Las Vegas today. Preliminary reports indicate that several on-duty Las Vegas police officers were involved in incidents at the same time. Three police cruisers crashed into separate casinos along the Vegas Strip, killing four and injuring dozens. There are also reports of police officers simply falling asleep as they walked, rode patrol bikes and even in the middle of arrests.
There are reports that many of the city’s police officers also fired their weapons indiscriminately into crowds of bystanders, but those reports have not been confirmed. A spokesman for the Las Vegas Police Department said that the incidents are under investigation.
What was happening? The internet article stated that it was another strange occurrence. That was an understatement. Vegas had devolved from Sin City into the proverbial Pandora’s Box. Once the lid was taken off, all of the crazies who normally hid in the shadows wanted to come out and have fun.
The poop-throwing crackhead was only the latest in a long list of strange
“Wait, you’re serious? I thought you were just messing around.”
“No, I’m dead serious, Pam,” Daniel answered. “That man’s mouth likely has more bacteria than the average person’s and that would be a considerable amount. We’re talking two or three weeks of daily treatment and then months to fully heal after that.”
The look on her face must have properly conveyed her feelings. “Look, it’s not all bad,” the doctor said. “You’ll get some paid vacation time from the department and you’ll get to see me four out of every seven days.”
“Gee, thanks,” she replied glumly. “When do we start?”
He picked up her chart and began writing. “We’ll have to start the debridement cycle tomorrow. One of the nurses will schedule your follow-up before you’re released today.”
“I can’t wait,” she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
*****
Pam hobbled along towards the restroom on the crutches that the orderly gave her. She wasn’t joking with the doctor; she really was in terrific shape. The department offered free Crossfit memberships to all of the officers and she flourished under the brutal workouts. However, the pain in her leg and the crutches made her feel like she was ninety.
Why are the bathrooms always so far away from the waiting area? she wailed inwardly. She finally made it and pulled out her phone before sitting down on the toilet to examine Andrew’s text message to her. Once he’d dropped her off at the emergency room, he disregarded her advice to talk to a doctor and took the crackhead down to the station, so she needed a ride home from the hospital.
She’d initially sent him a message asking if he could come by the hospital to pick her up and take her home since she didn’t trust driving with an injured right leg. He’d responded back to her in the strangest way. She brought up the conversation and read through it again.
ME: Can you pick me up? No car, can’t drive with bad leg.
ANDY: Sure np. Will be a while tho, IA here.
ME: Why is Internal Affairs there?
ANDY: Remember when I blacked out today?
ME: I’m sitting in the hospital b/c you blacked out.
ANDY: True, sorry. Blackouts happened all over LVPD.
ME: What do you mean?
ANDY: Hundreds of LVPD blacked out at same time.
ANDY: Car crashes, arrests, eating. Seems every officer on duty had problem.
ME: Not me.
ANDY: How’d you get bitten?
ME: You let perp get up.
ANDY: Do you remember it happening?
ME: OMG, I don’t. Did I black out too?
ANDY: No idea, but if you didn’t, you’d be only one.
ANDY: I’m next to speak to investigator, see you soon.
ME: Ok. Thank you.
She thought about it for a moment and then pulled up the internet on her phone’s web browser. A quick search brought up a few paragraphs about the incident, but it was so new that there wasn’t much meat to the story.
Las Vegas—(AP) Yet another strange and tragic occurrence happened in Las Vegas today. Preliminary reports indicate that several on-duty Las Vegas police officers were involved in incidents at the same time. Three police cruisers crashed into separate casinos along the Vegas Strip, killing four and injuring dozens. There are also reports of police officers simply falling asleep as they walked, rode patrol bikes and even in the middle of arrests.
There are reports that many of the city’s police officers also fired their weapons indiscriminately into crowds of bystanders, but those reports have not been confirmed. A spokesman for the Las Vegas Police Department said that the incidents are under investigation.
What was happening? The internet article stated that it was another strange occurrence. That was an understatement. Vegas had devolved from Sin City into the proverbial Pandora’s Box. Once the lid was taken off, all of the crazies who normally hid in the shadows wanted to come out and have fun.
The poop-throwing crackhead was only the latest in a long list of strange
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