Another Not So Fiction Adventure: Part 5

“Just so you know Rudy and Ludmilla are RN’s as well as bodybuilders RJ” said Alvida as Rudy put electrode pads on my inner thighs and abdomen. They turned me on my side and put a large electrode pad across my back and laid me on this wide reclining new age hospital bed.

Ludmilla strapped my right arm to the arm rest and brought the oxygen mask to the recliner and attached it to a device generating smoke through a series of clear tubes. I heard Alvida say, “Michal should be here any minute”.

Michal wearing a short gray business suit and a sheer black blouse showed up and sat in a chair next to the recliner.

“Alvida speaks highly of you, so does Kirk RJ.” My eyes bugged out, now I realized I have been set up. Michal smiled and said “Kirk does work for some of my friends in the law business too.

Kirk and my brother did business together for several years.” Michal looked at Ludmilla and nodded, I tried to move as Ludmilla set a medlock on my hand. Alvida said, “I knew there was a reason.”

The needle produced a small drop of blood as what felt like a garden hose was pushed into the veins of my hand. Michal continued, “We want to make a deal with you, give your report to Ara, tell him everything you saw here, even the few plants grown for medical marijuana. Your ‘modest’ description and casual detail will help us immensely.”

I said to Michal, “Why should I do this?” Michal unfolded her arms, touched my face and said “In return we will treat your pain.” I looked into Michal’s eyes and said “Why did Kirk even involve me in this?” Michal smiled and said, “Kirk set this up because Ara owes him thousands of dollars in fees and he wants nothing to do with this ‘family feud’. Kirk does want us to help you.”

“How does Kirk know about what you do here?” Michal and Alvida smiled together and I thought OH NO! Michal said “Kirk has been a patient here but no one is at liberty to talk about what he was treated for. Just know that this is a multipurpose pain treatment and rehabilitation retreat that also helps indigent and desperate women back into being productive citizens. I said “I'll accept help for the pain but I don’t want to be in this mess at all, ....I'm tired and I am in a lot of pain Michal.”

Now the hard faces around me were full of empathy and/or pity. I wanted nothing more to do with this because I was a pawn in a chess game and a family fight. I said to Alvida, “I can’t believe Kirk sold me out, I can’t believe he put me in a position to be harmed.” Alvida said “we would never harm you, in fact I will take you back right now…but you will never know if you could be without pain.

You’re here, let us help you, I will be with you, We’ll do everything to make you comfortable, get treated.”

“Alvida, you were treated here with Katie?” “Yeah RJ, I was dealing with depression and shame.” As Rudy continued prepping me, Ludmilla, along with the old woman M.D. who interviewed me (the old woman said “my name is Dr. Moode”) were working around the recliner.

I asked Alvida, “do you ever talk to the woman who abused you.” “Why do you ask, RJ?” “You never mentioned the Marine Officers name when we talked?”

I looked at Alvida, “You said she got you your job, this job.” Alvida put her hand on my face and said “RJ, her name is Michal Ruckert” Michal’s eyes had a tear as she looked down. Now I understood a little more as my heart sank. It all showed up on the monitoring equipment, the ekg/bp/pulse monitor was beeping, wining and ringing while Dr. Moode said “we have to get your blood pressure down.”

I quivered as the Doctor said “I will treat your pain with two approaches, first we will give you a little motrin to relax your muscles and make you more receptive to the inhalation treatment which will consist of medically enhanced cannibinoids.” “What are cannibinoids Doc?” Dr. Moode said, “Essentially highly enhanced THC. Then we will give you blood pressure medication intravenously.” Then the Doctor put the mask on my face as Ludmilla put the motrin syringe in the medlock. Michal smiled as she held Alvida’s hand.

I could smell it, it was definitely ganja with an easy light steamy scent that caused my lungs to tickle a bit, after a few minutes I began to float and started to ‘see things’. I thought I saw Michal get naked and sit in a recliner while Alvida strapped her into the chair. Everything started to float, Rudy (amazon sister) sat at a machine with dials and buttons and Ludmilla looked like she put another syringe in the medlock. “You will at first feel light-headed, then euphoria” said the old Doctor.

I started to fade in and out while things were happening to me and around me, I was responding to suggestions and commands as a soothing massaging buzz shot through my back and groin. Everything was floating as the world faded to white. I could hear voices, I felt sensations that I never felt before in parts of my body I didn’t think you could feel in.

I soon after passed out only vaguely remembering images, sounds and sensations. When I woke up it was in one of the upstairs bedrooms and the sun was coming up. Before I could get up Dr. Moode walked in.

“I need you to get up very slowly and walk with me to the next room, don’t be shy, I’ve seen naked men before.” I followed the Doctor to another room I was given a robe, a cane and a cup of coffee and walked out to the courtyard.

I felt no pain, not even a twinge, though my rear end felt a little sore. In the courtyard was Michal in a see-through yellow bikini with Alvida in a sheer red bikini, both in sunglasses reclining in the shade.

“Sit down RJ” said Alvida as she passed me my phone. “Call Kirk and make your report.” I did just that, noting a ‘few marijuana plants’ one or two workers and a neat well staffed medical and rest facility. I then asked Kirk to call me on Michal’s phone, she was surprised but gave me her phone. Michal’s cell phone rang.

I said damn! I answered the phone and said “Kirk why did you put me through this…why didn’t you just tell me to come here in the first place.” Kirk said “RJ, If something unforeseen did happen you would have been confused. This way you know what you know and we all get paid.” I said “I’ll talk to you later Kirk.”

I hung up and gave Michal her phone back. Dr. Moode sat down with us and asked how I felt. “I don’t have the back or groin pain but my ass feels real sore Doc.” The Doctor had a light smile on her face and said “Michal and Alvida will discuss your ‘anal relaxation treatment’.” “What? Anal treatment!” I sat with my mouth open and eyes bugging. I said “maybe some of my hallucinations weren’t hallucinations at all Dr. Assfreak.”

The Doctor said “calm down RJ, I did not have anything to do with that part of your treatment”. I said “I though I saw Michal naked being tied to a recliner by Alvida who had her head in her crotch.” Michal held hands with Alvida both giggling uncontrollably. “I thought I saw Ludmilla turn me over, I felt everything, but I couldn’t move. It had to be a hallucination.”

“No, not at all, the cannibinoid medication given to you effects directly your cerebrum and cerebellum (brain) by altering your brain chemistry and changes the way your brain sends messages to your body. That’s how we treat the pain” said Dr. Moode. “I will write a prescription for exercises and cannibis. Take care RJ.” The Doctor walked back inside. I immediately went on the offensive and said “So Alvida, you have a relationship with your attacker…she taught you well!”

Before Alvida could speak Michal leaned in and said, “I made right what I did wrong and whenever I feel guilty about what I did I call Alvida and we come to the retreat and continue to work it out.” I asked “Work it out how Michal?”

Alvida now spoke up, “Levon helped us with a way to confront the anger and aggression and the shame through a process we call ‘surrender’.” I put my hands up and said “Ok, I’ll leave that alone ladies, but I see women working here but no men, why.”

Michal said, “because men only get pain treatment, the women get prepared to live out in the world again and not be ashamed of themselves or live in fear. That’s why they get to live here for up to three months by that time we find them jobs and housing.” “OK, I guess you trust the men who come here not to tell their wives about this place Michal.” Michal lowered her sun glasses so I could see her eyes and said “Trust is found in compromise RJ.” Then Michal passed me a folder.

I opened the folder and looked through it, there were several pictures of me in very compromising positions with weird devices in ways too vulgar to describe. “I see your point Michal, now I feel used, lied to and cheated.” Alvida and Michal had a long talk with me after I got “medicated”. We spent time together working out my ‘fee’ for services rendered on behalf of the ‘Gentlemen’s Club’. I got dressed then Alvida and I drove back to Altadena.

A few days later I got on a plane back to New York with a new therapy for pain and a medical marijuana card. I'm so glad this is finished.

RJ