Burning Man & the Angry Skin will our hero choose health over the Playa?

After the car blew up and I was hit by a bicycle, I immediately broke out in an all-over angry attack of psoriasis, something I've had on my legs for years but never on my HANDS. I burst into tears when it happened, and the itch was over the top for days before I finally bit the bullet and set an appointment with a Chinese doctor. I'm signed on now for a full course in acupunture and herbs - three months or so. They don't take Medicaid, (natch) I'm still up to my eyeballs in debt from Mexico, and I'm still a WRITER, for chrissakes, which means that even when I make money it seems to take about 60 days to get paid from the time I complete the work.


The only thing keeping me afloat is an American Express my parents gave me (which I pay on) to go to Mexico and have been nice enough not to take back, because everyone sees i work all the time but just don't cover anything. last year i skipped out on burning man because i was tired of going - this year i know for certain that there is NOTHING more important than my health, and if Chinese medicine can help keep my wild energy cycles from creating a scenario where another fucking safe falls on my head, then i have to go into debt for that - and not BM.

But the opera ain't over yet...who knows...i might make it anyway. photo by Erik Aylen