Day VI of IV

antibiotics for infections i test negative for.

i test negative for everything. nurses say it's probably some unfamiliar parasite.

india, she says, that's why I'm not going there.

what if they're (we're...although i'm not really involved in the process) doing this all wrong?

what if instead of antibiotics, the fluid was carrot juice (or beet, or kale, or some ginger blend)?

maybe i'd die. would require some preliminary tests.

but,

i prefer thinking of a hospital with juice blend IVs and rooms dense with evergreen trees and shrubs,

oxygen tanks.

and where admission bracelets are small potted plants you carry around your neck,

blue flowering plants for paediatrics and wild roses for emergency.

carrot juice IV