Post #178993 by stentiki on Thu, Aug 11, 2005 2:44 PM

After surgery I was under heavy narcotics. I'm allergic to morphine so they gave me percoset which is a powerful hallucinogen.

So as you can imagine, the Tiki's started appearing. They were on the walls, they were in the nurses station, they were on my trays. Maori carvings, Moais, Marquesan, and Hawaiian Ku's. Black, white, brown, blue, and red. They were everywhere and this was all while I was awake and conscious!

I kept asking Tina, "do you see the Tikis?"

The doctors told her to humor me to keep my stress low so she would always say "yes, I see them."

I was in a lot of pain but in awe of this Tiki Hospital. I thought it was a great idea because hey, who doesn't like Tikis? They're good luck and they take you to that happy place!

During my drug induced state I also said, "Isn't it amazing that out of all the hospitals in all the world, I end up in a Tiki hospital? What are the odds?! I gotta tell Tiki Central about this!"

I kept seeing people come through the hospital dressed in elaborate costumes, geishas, monsters, vampires, Mardi Gras masks, etc. I even saw Willie Wonka!

In trying to make sense of it all I imagined they were all foreign tourists conducting some sort of elaborate scavenger hunt in the Tiki Hospital. They would come up to the nurses station and leave something off (a trumpet, a suitcase, a ceramic bowl) and the nurse would give them something in return. And then it was on to the next station.

I remember being both appalled and elated that the hospital would allow people to file through like this. Appalled for obvious reasons, but elated that the Tiki hospital might be open for tours for our friends at Tiki Central.

When I finally came back to earth, the Tikis had vanished. I found myself staring at a couple of black thermal coffee pots that I believed were Moais. :)

Aloha,

Arty

[ Edited by: stentiki 2005-08-11 19:45 ]