November 27, 2023:
At the bank she walked right through a plate glass window. Two weeks hospitalized, lacerations head to toe.
Recovery was years. Constant pain. Exhaustion of Western medicine: There's nothing more we can do for you.
To her own endless shock, acupuncture relieved the suffering. That voodoo from the mysterious East.
I thought of it as: When science fails, turn to different science. She thought of it as: Utterly incomprehensible. Not even magic. Magic might have made sense. This was simply and purely baffling.
Hillbilly life in the Big ol' City.