“I’ve been having a hard time. I separated from my girlfriend. I lost my ID, my cell phone got stolen. My memory is messed up. Sometimes I just leave things because I forget about them. It’s not cause of the drugs cause I been clean for awhile. Ever since I got rid of those parasites.”
“Like intestinal parasites?”
“Parasites that live in heroin and coke. They’re dormant until you shoot it up and then they come alive when they hit your blood stream.”
“I fell down and cut up my hands, then they got infected. And my ears are infected too, I rubbed some toothpaste on them.”
“Is there anywhere you can go to get help?”
“As far as what?”
“I don’t know. Can I do anything for you?”
“I could use some bananas…and some rubbing alcohol…and some hydrogen peroxide…and some toothpaste.”
“Ok, I’ll get it from the store. Wait right here.”
“Ok, and could you get me a soda too?”
“Yeah.”
“You sure you can you afford all that?”
“Yeah, I can.”