Armageddonville -Book Six

By Jay El Mitchell

For a while, Thomas Sullivan had it all. A career as a successful novelist, upcoming movie based on one of his books, engaged to a beautiful actress. It all seemed too good to be true, and was. Following the discovery of his fiancee's Infidelity, Sully left it all behind to take a six-week "vacation" to his grandfather's mountain cabin with only his dog Sterling for company. After completing his intoxicant-filled emotional rehab, he returns to town -and to a nightmare. Something has gone horribly wrong during his weeks as a recluse, and it is only now that he realizes that while he was trying to shut the world out, the world ended, and he missed it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jay El Mitchell
• Release date: Aug 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311621054

Jay El Mitchell

I am a carbon-based life form who has been on this planet for nearly 30 years. I live near the beach (east coast) and enjoy it, primarily after sunset. I am lactose intolerant but love ice cream. Upon my death I plan to be cremated, with half of my ashes thrown directly into Nancy Graces's unsuspecting face (I have a curse in the works) and the other half kept in an old condiment jar in the back of the pantry.

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Armageddonville: Book Six

Jay El Mitchell

Copyright by Jay El Mitchell 2014

Smashwords Edition

Note to readers: this is part six of a continuing series.

Diabetes.

This realization came to me fully formed when I woke the next morning, as if my subconscious had been busy at work on it all night. Excessive alcohol intake involves a hell of a lot of sugar, while sedimentary lifestyle and poor diet could affect your ability to process it, causing your body to just chuck it out in your waste, leading to urine smelling fruity or sweet. Add it all up; Coop has diabetes. If it was a premorbid condition, or a consequence of the drinking, I had no idea. But I knew what I knew.

I decided to not share this with Elby, at least not until I had a chance to talk to Coop about it. I’m not sure why. I didn’t think telling Coop he probably had diabetes would make much of a difference at this point, and there didn’t even seem to be a point of getting a glucose testing kit from the pharmacy to check. It’s not like he was going to agree to drinking less, eating right and exercising. That being the case, there was really nothing we could do about it. I guess I just maybe wanted to know if Coop had it before or if it was something new. I didn’t know why that mattered, either, but it did.

It was day one of their new med regimen, but that wasn’t too significant. It would take a while for the meds to have a discernable effect, unless one of them was allergic to it the medication of course. Neither broke out in rashes or went into anaphylactic shock, so far so good.

They took Sterling jogging again, and while they were out I took out the text book we’d pilfered from the pharmacy and looked up diabetes. It said essentially what I’d remembered, though it also listed effects OF uncontrolled blood sugars. Too low could cause sleepiness and lethargy, which there was no telling with Coop. Too high, frequent urination with sweet-smelling urine, blurred vision, osteoporosis, and poor circulation. The idea of kidney damage made me nervous. Would that account for the rotted smell?

I knew I would have to go see him sometime today. I wanted to go alone, but if Elby asked to go I didn’t see myself telling her no. There was no point in me thinking about it because she didn’t ask to go. When I told her I was going to into town she didn’t ask why, just nodded and looked away. Considering she’d intuited what Coop was doing and referred to it in such of matter-of-fact voice, it would be easy to infer that she had a good emotional grip