Re-visiting older work I did…this one from college…my second year, when I was about 19.
My first year of college….I thought I was invincible. Being a diabetic and my first time away from my parents, I believed I could do anything and have no repricussions. I learned the extreme hard way how wrong I was.
I went to stay the weekend with a friend……….without taking my medicine with me……..almost 2 hours from where I needed to be to get them. I did everything I normally did…ate…slept…drank…..again….being dumb. It didn’t take long for my body and extremely elevated blood sugars to tell me different.
By the time my friend figured out I was REALLY bad off…I was unconsious by the time I got to the hospital. I was carried in and do not know anything again until I woke up floating………looking down at myself on a bed with my mom screaming at me.
Strangely…my first thoughts were ‘oh gosh…if MOM is here I KNOW I’m in trouble…she’s gonna KILL me!‘……….my second thoughts? ’Why am I floating?’……..my mom smacked my face and WHAM………I’m back where I should be…with her in my face this time yelling.
I obviously survived to tell this tale……but the horror of all the needles, the cathater(sp?), the doctors and nurses endlessly walking in my room to give me meds/draw blood/ask questions……it was such a horror I never wanted to re-live.
This print was made from a hunk of wood I carved….every memory vividly set from the nightmares I had afterwards.
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What category do I put this under? It’s not a mixed media…it’s not a painting…it’s not technically a photograph and it’s not digital…..help?