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AZroute74 · 05-03-2004, 12:56 PM

Well, as you can tell by my screen name here, I am a MAJOR lover of that song.

My first post at this board was something like in February, and I had already been very sick with what we thought was the flu for about two months. But the flu doesn't usually hang on that long, and my health is still up and down here in May, so it's obviously something more chronic. Don't have a firm diagnosis yet, but ulcers have been discovered. Does anyone else have them? Can they make you THAT sick for THAT long?

I don't want to bore people and re-tell the whole story, but I'll capsulize it. I had been living in the southwest to recover from a traumatic marriage breakup that DID have something to do with a woman named Anne. Then I got sick and was too weak to change the CD's in my player, but I had to have music because the place I was living in was so doggone noisy. All I could do was put "Carefree Highway" on repeat, and I must have listened to it an unexaggerated 500 times in a row. It had always been my favorite of his songs, but now it took on a new meaning. I loved the way GL rhymed that evil woman's name with "damned." Maybe the song helped me get well enough to travel by blocking out much of the stress, and eventually I returned to Kentucky to be near family while I continue to struggle with my health.

I still pop in a GL CD when I'm sick, depressed, or under major stress. Most recently it was as I was facing what would have been the anniversary of that failed marriage. Stress and illness caused me to sleep badly, and I woke up after having nightmares. My first thought on waking was, "Is it midnight yet?" I figured it was the anniversary thing causing the stress. Well, it wasn't quite midnight, yet, but now that I was awake I couldn't get back to sleep. I kept thinking about things. Him. The marriage. Anne. I wanted a GL song that would help me put the past behind me. So I connected to that first conscious thought, "Is it midnight yet?" and popped in "East of Midnight."

Ever onward, sea of dreams (nightmares....)

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"Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream..."

05-03-2004, 12:56 PM	#16
AZroute74 Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Louisville, KY, USA Posts: 80	Well, as you can tell by my screen name here, I am a MAJOR lover of that song. My first post at this board was something like in February, and I had already been very sick with what we thought was the flu for about two months. But the flu doesn't usually hang on that long, and my health is still up and down here in May, so it's obviously something more chronic. Don't have a firm diagnosis yet, but ulcers have been discovered. Does anyone else have them? Can they make you THAT sick for THAT long? I don't want to bore people and re-tell the whole story, but I'll capsulize it. I had been living in the southwest to recover from a traumatic marriage breakup that DID have something to do with a woman named Anne. Then I got sick and was too weak to change the CD's in my player, but I had to have music because the place I was living in was so doggone noisy. All I could do was put "Carefree Highway" on repeat, and I must have listened to it an unexaggerated 500 times in a row. It had always been my favorite of his songs, but now it took on a new meaning. I loved the way GL rhymed that evil woman's name with "damned." Maybe the song helped me get well enough to travel by blocking out much of the stress, and eventually I returned to Kentucky to be near family while I continue to struggle with my health. I still pop in a GL CD when I'm sick, depressed, or under major stress. Most recently it was as I was facing what would have been the anniversary of that failed marriage. Stress and illness caused me to sleep badly, and I woke up after having nightmares. My first thought on waking was, "Is it midnight yet?" I figured it was the anniversary thing causing the stress. Well, it wasn't quite midnight, yet, but now that I was awake I couldn't get back to sleep. I kept thinking about things. Him. The marriage. Anne. I wanted a GL song that would help me put the past behind me. So I connected to that first conscious thought, "Is it midnight yet?" and popped in "East of Midnight." Ever onward, sea of dreams (nightmares....) ------------------ "Pickin' up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream..."