Time for a quick break from the serious blog posts about MS. This picture above is Cheri Oteri when she was Saturday Night Live and did a few skits as a over-medicated lady. If you have not seen the SNL skits they are very funny. In 2011 I won (be submitting an online entry) a trip to New York for 2. Awesome, neither of us have been to NY and both of us have always wanted to go. It was a quick 3 day trip. They put us up in a boutique motel in downtown Manhattan. We got to fly Jet Blue for the first time. That was a treat. Bigger seats, more leg room and most importantly a individual TV's mounted into the backs of the seats in front of us. They also sent us off with 2 tickets for a private concert by MGMT in the Ed Sullivan theater. The motel was a few block away from Times Square and Central Park. Needless to say 3 days in NYC is not nearly enough.
Our Pedicab ride through Central Park.
The whole trip was great. We enjoyed real NY pizza (which did live up to all the hype), we "won" tickets to see a taping of the Late Night with David Letterman show and took a fantastic Pedicab ride through Central Park. We want to go back and spend a couple of weeks and see all that we can see.
After the quick 3 days we are on our way home. We check in at the airport and get our tickets. The flight was sold out and they could not seat us together. Jenn sat over the aisle and one row back in the middle seat. I also got a middle seat. I lucked out and both people seated on either side of me where great. Not such good luck for Jenn.
I see this older women walking down the aisle towards us. She is wearing way too much makeup and let's just say her outfit was a mishmash of stuff. This was Jenn's neighbor for the flight home. It didn't take her new neighbor long to get into crazy mode.
Before the flight took off this lady was in her carry on bag popping a couple different pills. She could not sit still. Up and down out of her seat and into and out of her carry on luggage. When it came time to take off I overheard the airline staff asking her to sit down and buckle up. I looked back to see what was going on and this lady had a "death grip" on the tops of the seats on either side of the aisle. He legs were spread apart from aisle to aisle. She looked like she was bracing for I don't know what. After a lot of coaching she finally sat down and buckled up.
Once the plane was in the air she immediately gets 2 cocktails and gets into her carry on luggage and starts popping more pills this time using cocktails to take them down with. I am curious by nature about human behavior and this was fascinating me. Jenn on the other hand was simply annoyed. Then the pills and booze kicked in.
She was still in and out of her seat and for some reason she had a plastic container of bird seed she pulled out of her bag and proceeds to open it and spill it all over the floor. She is now mumbling and the airline staff has surrounded her asking her questions. She didn't know her name or where she was. Then over the loudspeaker the pilot asks "is there a doctor on board?". There was and he proceeded to come back and see what was going on.
The doctor asks her what medicines she has taken and she did not know. By this time you could almost see her eyes spinning she was gooooone. The doctor pulls out all the prescription bottles out of her carry on bag. Appeared to be about 20 of them. He starts reading the labels and who the prescribing doctor was. He quickly discovers she was seeing multiple doctors and getting all kinds of different medications. Not knowing which ones she has taken he recommends that they put her on oxygen to see if that will settle her down.
A couple minutes later the pilot announces we are making an emergency landing in Ohio. We were only about a quarter of the way on flight from NY to Portland, OR. We land and a medical team boards to take her to a local hospital. The oxygen had settled her down and now she was pretty alert and was refusing to leave the plane. After a small battle about leaving she gives in and away goes over-medicated lady.
Though it was not the ideal deal way for this to happen......this did present me with and empty seat next to Jenn. I got to move seats and enjoy the rest of the flight with my wife. I guess if there is a moral to this story try to get to your gate early if the flight is sold out so you can sit next to people you want to.
Next post: Oh Avonex, why is your needle so big?
Thanks for reading.
-Brent
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