Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Page #2

are the toughest.

Not eating, it's kind of like

you're cutting yourself

off from society.

When you're not eating food,

it just doesn't seem normal.

I couldn't even watch TV

because of all the commercials.

You don't want to be

around people,

and you don't want to be

around food.

I was happiest in bed.

I didn't wanna get out of bed.

I just wanted to lie there

and feel sorry for myself.

Day Three was today.

I had a pretty bad night

last night.

I felt very, very,

very much alone,

last night in the sense that...

it's like you've got this mammoth

task ahead of you and

without food,

you're really starting to hurt,

and you're feeling it.

You wanna go to sleep

and wake up in two months

and it's all done.

As the saying goes,

"You do the crime,

you do the time,"

and there's no question,

I've done the crime.

I mean, you know,

I really have...

I really have...

not been kind to my body.

You know it's...

it's a tough thing,

the emotional attachment to food,

its bloody tough.

These are the pills

I have to take.

This is a 5 mg tablet

of prednisone.

That's 15 mgs there.

Before I started on the fast,

that's how many

I was having a day.

Looking at these...

at these...

bottles here,

it doesn't look good.

If you're a fit, healthy,

young person, you shouldn't be

traveling around with

prescription drugs

and doing that, I mean it's...

You wouldn't have thought,

I would never have thought

that it'd be me,

that I would...

have to do this.

I was in California in 1999

and I played golf and I thought

maybe I touched some poison ivy,

and that night I went to bed.

I went to wake up the next morning

and it was up

my forearms and Shins

and very itchy and scratching.

It's like hives.

It's chronic hives.

It spread all over my body,

torso, and geez,

I was lit up

like a Christmas tree.

This is how

my autoimmune disease works:

When you get bit by a mosquito,

receptors under your skin

send a signal to your brain.

HQ, we got an invader

in Sector 3.

Scramble the histamines.

Roger that.

Histamines are being deployed.

Histamine makes the blood vessels

around the bite swell,

making it more difficult

for the poisons

in the mosquitoes' saliva

to spread through the body.

As a side effect,

the whole area is

swollen, red and itchy,

but with my disease,

the receptors

send the wrong messages.

A handshake is like getting bit by a thousand mosquitoes.

Mayday! Mayday!

All hell's

breakin' loose down here!

All histamines,

report to battle stations!

And this can happen at anytime

to any part of my body.

Just the smell,

just the smell is sensational.

Normally I'd eat two of those,

not two slices,

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