jail time

I was too involved with trying to deal with being in jail, that I have never written about it. I was sent to cook county, the third roughest jail in the country, because I was enraged and in pain and these fucking morphine patches were doing nothing for me... my back was totally out and I was trying to keep writing and do the radio show. A real nightmare. By the time I call an ambulance over my back, I am in a pretty terrible way. I mean, it has to be so horrible that I am trying to drink or something stupid. This time, a doctor refused to treat me... and in the midst of an emergency ward I had been to, and knew I was having hellish problems that winter. It is the only hospital they would take me to from my block, too... really sucked. Anyways, on the way out, instead of beating the doctor to a pulp I punched two computer screens. They tossed me in jail for a couple hours. I suppose this would have been the end of the matter had I shown up in court. A poor guy like me with no history of crime, I figured they would do little to me. So I pay a fine. What the hell. Well, then I kept missing the court dates. I couldn't get ahold of the attorney and had no idea.. they put a warrant out on me, and the lawyer did not realize as much. I finally show up a month later, the judge gets pissed at me being lacksadasical (though all I was doing was what the attorney said in a letter she sent me... the judge refused to even let the attorney tell him that. Just a bastard this guy, should not be in power. Anyone who loses their temper in court over something as stupid as what I went through...

Oh, well.