#guitar

my Tele+, when it was new, in 1993.

to get the money for this, i joined a medical study which involved riding a stationary bike in the presence of some amount of ozone, and then allowing them to take lung biopsies after the ride.

college was a crazy time.

@smalleranimals very pretty picture. I'm curious what the biopsy was like? Were you conscious? (I understand the guitar is the point but that's a hardcore story.)

@americandave : totally conscious. and completely unaware of what was going to happen.

they took me into an operating room, gave me some atropine. endoscope down into my lung. then they followed that with a little grabby claw thing. claw tore off a piece of lung tissue and pulled it out. then they inserted tubes to do a saline rinse - i got to watch it all happen live on a TV monitor right above my head.

i coughed blood for two weeks.

but $500 !

@cambraca @americandave 😅i was young and dumb.
@smalleranimals @cambraca I am horrified, but also inspired that you went to such lengths to get your guitar.