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My fungal infection is evidently extremely contagious, so I’m in prison now,
in a special wing of the facility for this very thing. Most of the other
guys are in here to protect the other prisoners, though to varying degrees.
I think a couple of them just need to be protected from others, for
at least a period of time. The FBI is very serious about what’s happened to
me. They know that this is the fourth time in as many months that I’ve been
sick, so they’re not messin’ around. They sent investigators to every place
I’ve been to, in Kansas City, Iowa, and even down in Alabama. I didn’t think
that they would find anything, because it should be the proverbial needle in
a haystack, but they actually confirmed the source of my infection. When I
first escaped to Iowa, the ID makers (who, you’ll recall, kidnapped their
daughter when she was little) set me up in an abandoned warehouse. They
found traces of mold in the showers that I used to clean myself while I was
staying there. So it was in me for a month before I started showing
symptoms. Because of this, everyone I’ve come in contact with since then,
including law enforcement agents, court staff, and even the teenage girl,
who is now in witness protection, has to be tested. That’s going to take
some time, which is going to stress me out quite a bit. I’ll just be
devastated if it turns out that I infected someone else. Even the ID makers
would be bad news. I just don’t like hurting people, and anyway, my lawyer
says that they would be able to use it to their advantage in their own
criminal case. All I can do is wait, and hope that I was careful enough so
as to not infect anyone else. It’s not guaranteed that I did. I’ve never
been a fan of being around other people, so I instinctively keep my
distance, even when there’s no reason to suspect that anyone is sick.
Hopefully it was enough.
For the time being, I’m just in my little cell. There are no windows,
because that would expose the outside world to me, and vice versa. The bed
is less comfortable than the ones in jail. The food isn’t as good. The
correctional officers aren’t as nice. They know that my situation is
different than everyone else in here, but they don’t really care. They’ve
been trained to not treat people great, so that’s what they’re used to. As
far as I’ve seen, they’re not abusive, but I would honestly be less
surprised if I learned that they actually were. I don’t interact with them
very much, as you would expect. I don’t get yard time, and I take all my
meals inside the cell. If I want to work out, my only choice is a pull-up
bar. Of course, I’m supposed to be resting and recovering right now, but I
wouldn’t use it anyway, because I hate pull-ups. A nurse comes to check my
vitals every two hours, and a doctor visits twice a day. The nurses take my
blood occasionally too, to keep testing it. They think that I’m going to
have to stay in here for the rest of the week. Even if I stop exhibiting
symptoms, I could still be contagious. Fortunately, the judge agreed to give
me a computer with internet access. This will allow me to start my job
today, which is really important, because I don’t want to be fired on my
first day. A big thanks to my parole officer, Leonard who fought for me.
Obviously, since you’re reading this on a Monday, you know that I’ll be able
to continue to post to my website too. There’s nothing stopping me from
going to whatever site I want, but I want to commit right now to only using
this for work and writing. Okay? You can verify that by monitoring my
activity, I assume, prison officials. No funny business, I promise.
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