BRATTLEBORO — Today is another day I was woken up by not one construction project but two using jackhammers and this horrible, awful machine that's injecting cement into the foundation of our building.
I woke up with chest pains and I could not breathe. I had a dream that I had a violent accident and my thumb was being sliced off.
I had what anyone could call a breakdown on Friday. I have had the worst Thanksgiving of my entire life due to the malfeasance in not properly letting me know what was about to rain down on me.
What am I breathing? I will find out. I have recorded the machine on video making all of the fumes (three separate places are spewing filth) and the output this cement machine is making. I can taste it, for God's sake.
I am losing my hearing from this, and I'm being damaged - not just as a musician, but as a human. I have a hearing loss and a constant, constant hiss in my ears. I'm seeing my physician and will get an assessment of the damage this has caused.
This is by any standards egregious for putting any human through this - let alone a woman who is 62 years old and a recent breast cancer survivor. What is wrong with you?