: Allen Wyler
: Changes
: The Armchair Adventurer
: 9780985994266
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
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Cardiologist Chris Holden finds himself transported into his son Joel's body and into Joel's life. Is this reincarnation, madness, a near-death experience or simply another chance to reconcile and make his son's dreams come true?

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OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES EMERGENCY ROOM

He sat on the emergency room gurney studying the back of his hands again. Young smooth skin. Not the same turkey skin he’d grown so used to seeing while scrubbing outside the cardiac cath lab. He held up his left palm. The scar that had been there for the last forty-five years—the one from his first attempt at cleaning a fish—was gone. Jabbed the knife straight in. Luckily he didn’t severe a tendon or nerve. A painful indelible lesson on the dangers of sharp blades. The things you learn growing up. He wiggled his fingers. They moved and felt like his. Just didn’t look like them, was all. Very very strange.

He pushed off the gurney onto the floor in front of the mirror above the sink. And that was another thing; his body felt so different. Stronger, more rested, more energetic. No nagging ache in the right hip.

What the hell happened? One minute he was hiking, the next he was on the kitchen floor in Chez Pierre.

With Joel’s mind and body.

Well, that wasn’t quite right. Best he could tell, this was Joel’s body but Chris’s mind. Yet that wasn’t exactly right either because he had Joel’s memories too. Which he found incredibly interesting, this sudden ability to see both sides of shared experiences, good and bad. The potato-leek soup dinner, for example. Felt sort of like looking out from the inside of a mirror or like living in a dream. Leaving him disoriented and confused, yet at the same time fascinated.

Except, this wasn’t any dream. This was very real. And very creepy.

What the hell happened? Was he totally psychotic? Was what he was experiencing—or thought he was experiencing—a major psychotic delusion? He pinched himself once again, and yes, felt pain. Huh!

One time, years ago in college, he dropped acid. Man, what a trip. But this was nothing like that. Then, the colors, sounds, and images were, well, psychedelic. Youknew you were seeing a distortion. Now nothing seemed distorted or unreal. This felt absolutely normal. And this wasn’t like any of the coke Joel had done, either. Not ev