here's a little song i rewrote. based on the diddy "both hands" by Ani Difranco.
my version "Dos Medicos" tells of my last lil adventure (Sat night to the ongoing recovery of today) no worries about the details. i was sick. pretty sick. we were worried. yep a lil worried. but now i am on the blissful and carefully monitored road to recovery. in post-acute stable condition Dengue Fever i am: 1. amazed at the security of my medical care (with the bolivian connections and the american volunteers i am as taken care of as i will ever be) 2. incredibly educated on one more lovely detail of life 3. wiser beyond my years once once again 4.humbled and rooted by the reality of it all 5. thankful to be alive
Dos Medicos
I am walking
out in the jungle
and I am visited by the aedes aegypto
mosquito again
and I am getting the Dengue fever
and it can't let it go
but I will get through...
a tourniquet test behind the dark curtains
and the open door
on the second floor
he’s looking for many petechiae
to see how long our coordinator can last
and dos medicos
I need dos medicos
oh, I can't open my eyes
I am counting
platelets in your body
I am reading about Dengue
And how few have died
How few have died
I am watching your pulse rise and fall
like the cells of my life,
and the pain of it all .
and your bones have been my breakpoint
and your flesh has been my fall
I am waiting for DEET
to offer up my keep
ohh dos medicos
*I need dos medicos
oh I can't open my eyes
but in eachother's hearts we grew less and less small
and eventually the laboratorio couldn't explain it all
and I'm recording our history now on the clinica wall
and eventually Dr. Douglas will come
and solucionar it all
I am walking
out in the jungle
and I am visited by the aedes aegypto
mosquito again
and I am NOT getting the Dengue fever
and I can't let it know
that I will get through...
So now use dos medicos
please use dos medicos
so you can open your eyes
I am counting
platelets in your body
I am singing about Dengue
and how we survived
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