Superposition of the Schrodinger Kid

It could be that the Schrodinger Kid is fished out of a snow drift in North Dakota in the mid-twentieth century. Found by Little Hans of the Jorgensen family. 95% probability.

It could be that the kid is dead, and his story ends right then and there for him, like a wave crashing on the beach or a wave quietly flowing across a lake until it gently dissolves onto the shore, while the waves for Jorge, Little Hans, and Pa roll through the blizzarded plains to the farmhouse. 50% probability.

It could be that the kid is alive, tended by Ma as her own—50% probability--as the rest of her family nor the Schrodinger’s are never seen again. 80% probability they are murdered by Yellow Gloves; 9% probability they all migrate to the Bahamas; 1% chance they are sucked into a wormhole that formed on the Schrodinger property.

5% probability that the Schrodinger Kid isn’t fished out of a snow drift in North Dakota. Alternatively, he is a student attending Old Dominion University in Southeastern Virginia. He drinks a half-gallon of gin and ends up in Sentara Medical Center’s ER.

When he arrives, none of the medical staff know how much he’s been drinking. He's vomiting all over himself and his pants are soaked in urine.

The Doctor pushes the needle into his arm, an intravenous drip to top up his water, blood sugar and vitamin levels. The staff strips off his clothing and fit him with a catheter. The Schrodinger KId struggles and must be restrained.

He shouts, “The third memory. I have one memory left. But it’s not my memory!”

The Doctor pays little attention to the barely comprehensible babbling, weird things about strawberries and memories, alluded to some memory recovery drug that doesn’t exist. Of course, he is stupendously intoxicated.

The Schrodinger Kid wasn't going to say much more, because the Doctor inserts a tube down the kid’s throat to secure a passageway for breathing, to prevent him choking on his vomit.

Next, the Doctor feeds a plastic tube through his nose and keeps feeding it. After feeding quite a bit in, he pushes some air down the tube and listens. The tube has made it to the stomach. He secures the tube with some medical tape and uses a large syringe to push saline into the stomach. The Schrodinger Kid is now comatose, although tears streamed down his face. It's common for this sort of thing to happen. 97.5% probability.

After the Doctor fills the stomach with saline, he uses the syringe to pull it all right back out. He fills and refills the Schrodinger Kid's stomach, repeatedly, for 20 minutes or so. Then the kid throws up and his lungs fill with vomit.

At this point, things have gotten quite serious. The doctor suctions out his lungs, and the staff sedate him and put him on a ventilator, hoping that the injury to his lungs recover during the course of the next 5-6 days. Pump him full of antibiotics, Flagyl and Cefuroxime.

He's transferred from Trauma to the ICU, still touch and go.

75% probability he never regains consciousness and dies.

20% probability his parents fly down from North Dakota, arriving when he regains consciousness. The Doctor lectures him about alcohol abuse. Since the kid doesn’t remember any of it, he is unimpressed and once leaving the hospital, continues to binge drink until he dies (69% probability) or hits bottom, goes to AA, and recovers (31% probability)

5% probability a woman visits regularly, sits by his bedside, and holds his hand. Later, they marry, have a child, and move back to North Dakota. He wakes up one day and stops drinking.

When their child is four years old, the Schrodinger Kid, no longer a kid, is driving his family on an icy road, when a truck cuts in front of them. He taps the brake, and loses control of the car, which spins and spins. Their child is laughing, because it’s a fun ride.

The car smashes into a large tree (67% Cottonwood, 33% Oak) at the roadside. 99% probability she dies. 91% probability the child lives, but suffers from a severe brain injury. She if fed by a tube, as she relearns how to eat.

It could be that the Schrodinger Kid lives these moments, soon after George H Bush is elected President. 88% probability.

It could be that the kid lives these moments seven decades after Tsarist Russia and the Western Powers defeat Germany and the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, which results in a Cold War between the US and Russia. Socialism dominates US politics to counter the threat of the Russian monarchy. 12% probability.

It could be that he lives these moments a millennia after homo sapiens has annihilated itself and is not himself human, but one of the sentient cephalopod creatures that evolved to become the next dominant species on the planet. .000001% probability.