Misc Originals – David Warmke - Aplastic Anemia (Guitar)

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In December 84 before Christmas

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A ceramic present Jane was making just needed coating

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She sprayed it stunk like the dickens

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It coated just fine but probably did more than we could see

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A month later I was dizzy

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I never get dizzy

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Then spots in my body, petechiae

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One morning my eyes were full of red lines

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I knew something was wrong

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Running Evergreen and going to school as well

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I went to the clinic at UTSA

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The doctor saw me , He said you need some blood tests

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February It was, I got my blood drawn downtown in SA

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The rodeo parade was walking by it was surreal

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Now driving back they called, come back now

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I did a Uee on the death loop  then My doctor called said no  come here

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I knew something was wrong and it must be big

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Got  there and he said you need to go in the hospital now

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It was Friday afternoon, Will we do anything there over the weekend?

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I asked  can’t it wait till Monday, he Said yes.

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I went home sat on the couch

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Jane at my side my arm around her

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When she got up my arm was black and blue

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I was in a hospital bed before dark

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The oncology floor of Humana was now home

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A patient screaming it was dark

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I felt death’s presence there

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A week of testing and a painful bone marrow biopsy

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We go the answer Severe Aplastic Anemia

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My white count was low, red low as well, but palettes moslty gone

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Should have hundreds of thousands I had less than 10000

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Jane started phoning , talked to Dr. Champlain UCAL

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UCLA, Mayo and Tulane were the best

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Now I was back in L.A. with the best sort like 84

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Walking past the Hospital during the Olympics on the way to tennis

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Thinking of those in there, God was with me I had no idea

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This place was GREAT I felt just fine

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There was no pain and I was at peace, not sure why

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ATG was the treatment, a clinical study 14 days or 14 days + a few

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I wanted more I got less

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Now ATG anti thyomocite  globulin was horse serum

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From Horsed injected human thymus glans

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I had cramps just like them old westerns

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But on day 5 a tickle in my throat one evening

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The next day during rounds I had full blown Strider

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Strep  pervaded all my body, my epiglottis was huge

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Blocking my trachea, breathing in was a no go

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Asthma as kid taught me not to struggle just rest

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An emergency trach, no more talking for me

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Without my voice  I felt like I was not there

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Three days the trach was out, never stopped treating me with ATG

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I happily lay in bed now hearing the air flowing through my head

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Three weeks I was out  three more weeks in LA like 84 stayed at Gams,

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We toured California, seeing the sights wondering if this worked

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Back home at 90 days my counts finally started rising

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It worked, but took a full year of waiting, that was the hardest

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I stopped working did a little more school

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Jane’s business took off her selling me running the back end

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Now I saw my mortality, we had kids after an Aids test

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After hundreds units of blood not tested, I did not want to know

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No aids no hepatitis I was just fine, Jane was never the same

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Somehow always I was at peace Jesus was quietly with me

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Agnostic back then, I was not with Him

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Jesus was only a definite maybe, but He never left my side

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Jesus never left my sidce