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Oasis Part 14
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There is photographic evidence of me taking them though; I went through a feet and ear stage. For 2 weeks when I was on vicadin and morphine I photographed my friends, family and perfects strangers ears and feet.
To this day I still don’t know what I am going to do with those photos.
I fetched Shane a glass of water to take the prescribed tablets, and we decided to play some cards until the medication kicked in. About 2 games ago we noticed her wavering, but now – she was completely gone.
Molly is going to have fun when she comes by. Shane told us that Molly had agreed to come over and nurse her until she was back on her feet.
It was cute. Pathetically neither of them realised how cute they would be together.
Someone really should set them up.
The week had been uneventful, I spent a lot of time in the darkroom enlarging some photographs that Kit wanted to show in Xen. The rest of the time was spent in the company of friends; I followed Alice to work like a lamb, and I learnt one of the most amazing things.
The kids in Eagle house, were like the kids in Africa. I looked at them, and talked to them. The only difference was, these guys weren’t starving for food. It gave me an idea for the book, but until I could meet with Tina I didn’t want to put too much work into it.
Tina and I haven’t been able to pin down a time meet, she has been caught up with the emergency. One that comprised of a client who is attempting to sue her, personally, and the publishers as well. I offered Tina access to my lawyer, sweet Phyllis Kroll. She comes across a bumbling, absent minded kind of a character, but as my father told me, it was always the jesters who had the kings ear. Always the jesters who heard all about the kingdom.
I was thanked for the offer, but it was declined as she had already got a lawyer on the case. I hope it’s rectified swiftly, not just because I really want to get to work on the book, but because I don’t want Tina to be hurt.
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Hello My Most Entrancing Friend…
Bette is starting to realize that her actions do affect the people and environments around her… she is starting to realize that her absence has affected more then just her own selfish needs… she has pushed her family in a way that they have needed to start replacing and start moving away from her… she needs to find a way to ensure them that she is their confidant.. she is their family…
Ohhhh… I feel there is going to be a certain level of separation due to this situation that has been created… Bette’s stubbornness is something that can hurt more then anything and when Helena comes to find Bette not their she will feel the sting of abandonment… and at this time Bette risks losing her closest…
you my friend continue to blow me away with the layering and the in playing that goes through Bette’s mind… Song playing while reading; P.M. Dawn – Id Die Without You…
never doubt that you move me beyond words with your words and your friendship my amazing friend…love and hugs, always and forever, JC (Latin Nephew to those Salsa Angels and the ever loving Cuzzie to the ever talented Eunichick and Personal Fanner to the Incredibly Talent Deean)
Helena’s gonna b mad to find that Bells has gone i just hope Bette turns up for her appointment.
When you’re worried about some aspect of your health, attention from even those closest to you can make you feel claustrophobic, or like a specimen in a petrie dish… I can understand Bette’s need to just… not be there. This is a really very interesting story you’re writing, Deean. Thanks for the post.
My goodness, JC, you are being awfully hard on Bette here! I think if one is dealing with severe and possibly terminal illness, it infiltrates every facet of their lives, from the violations of body, mind and spirit, the interruption of enjoyment of life as well as fear of death, the need to feel that there is somthing more to life than just the constant battle with illness, hence her need to photograph the pain of others. In regard to the friends, she loves them but it cannot not be up to her to make them feel better about her. Helena is as there as she possibly can be, and she will be hurt to arrive and see Bette gone, but they cannot know what it is like for her, they can’t feel her pain and they do expect her to take theirs away. It’s too much. I think they are the ones who are being selfish to expect her to. I think they should want her to give them what she can and then give her space.
Hello Caeleigh…
I would agree with you if Bette actually cared to see what her actual health is… if it wasn’t for Helena she wouldn’t be anywhere near ready for this appointment… she continues to hide behind her pain and that is all fine… hide behind that pain of others and blah blah blah… but the end result is… if she wants to lose everyone in her life then all she has to do is continue down this pathway…
She already feels it when she was reflecting on how Shane has chosen not to call upon her in her time of need… Shane is starting to feel that Bette’s pulling away and running away does not measure up to someone I can call and depend on… considering they are all just used to Bette up and leaving without word one…
So yes Bette needs her space… but she also needs to take some responsibilities for her actions… if her friends could actually “trust” her at taking care of herself and she has proven with her inability to meet “Important” life or death appointments then they might not be so clingy…
Sorry but I think Bette will better appreciate what she ‘might’ have had when they all decide to let her live her life on her own… cause I believe within the characters that Helena is the one that has given her the most space….
So when Helena goes to Bette’s sees this potential note and then throws her hands up in the air and says ‘fuck it’ I’ve tried to help her… be there fore her… but she doesn’t want it… well guess what I’m tired of being abused by my ‘supposed’ best friend… see you later…
Bette is an adult she will rebound… she might miss this important appointment and find out she is dying and then well what then… yes she can be scared… yes she can run… but at least she should take responsibility for her abandonment of her friends in their time of fear and concern… but that is not for Bette cause she should be left to her own devices…
Sorry but Bette isn’t acting like an adult only a petulant child…
Sincerely,
JC
Hello Caeleigh… I am sorry… that is pretty harsh after I read it… I will have it removed if it offends or upsets you in any way… sometimes the words pore out with due course… JC
It’s ok JC, it’s how you feel. I just don’t agree is all. Yes people might think that Bette is being irresponsible with he rhealth but they don’t know what it feels like to be afraid of hearing those words again. it is human nature to run from what terrifies us. Yes Helena has done all she can but in the end they do not know what Bette is going through and to walk away from her because she is not acting as they want her to is the worst kind of abandonment. yes she is being an angry scared child..at the unfairness of life, at her disease…at her forced aloneness because they can’t understand what it is like to be her…
I don’t know what it is like to have a fatal illness but I think I would find comfort in the nurturing arms of a caring friend or relative.
Mercy, this is a really deep and emotional story. Maybe when Bette doesn’t show up for Helena and Helena doesn’t show up for Bette’s appt on Friday, maybe Tina will just happen to be available and catch Bette at a moment that would allow her to go with Bette to the appt because she really should not be alone to hear the news. there is soemthing happening with the two of them and maybe they don’t know it just yet. Hopefully Bette will be okay with treatment and I understand how terrified she is of hearing the news of the tests. PPS
Hello Caeleigh…
Unfortunately when you are unwilling to talk to anyone about your ‘aloneness’ and if you are unwilling to accept certain times that ‘life’ just isn’t fair then you find yourself in a repeated cycle… every time she gets some kind of ‘news’ she runs away… so I would feel that ‘her’ friends and family should feel more abandoned by ‘her’ then ‘she’ by them since they haven’t ever left her alone… she forced her own ‘aloneness’… yes be scared… hate the world and be angry but also realize that you ‘do’ have choices and you can either face it… or run… but when you make a choice… live with it… her friends have not abandoned her like she has them…
Sincerely,
JC
Hi, dear sweet Deean! Evasive, absent, unwilling to face the aftermath. Hmmm Dealing with hunger, poverty and misery. One would say that Bette is only focusing on being compassionate about others than she is for her health or her well being. A terminal illness is just a matter of knowing how much time you have left to live. The result will not vanish, even if you hide, go away or pretend it is not happening to you. The death sentence is there. Always present. Fear to know the truth is always frightening. Such is the case in which Bette finds herself now. We believe she has lost her meaning of existence. She prefers to shut the world off and focus on someone else. This kind of behaviour has to affect those who are around her. She needs something or someone who may bring her to appreciate what she has and to make the best of the time that she has left. Although we don’t even know what are the results of the tests she went through. PPS Lucero & Marsha (Proud Salsa Aunties to the ever loving JC and Eunichick)