Response to Denis Johnson's "Emergency"

The obvious part of this short story is that both Georgie and the narrator (whose name we never learn) are both on drugs.  We learn in the beginning that the both of them steal drugs from the E.R. they work in.  Since both of them are tripping for the entire story, we have a case of an unreliable narrator, which to me proved frustrating.  You do not find answers or reasons for these characters to act the way they do.  Neither do you find explanations of why Terrence Weber, the man who was stabbed in his eye by his wife, recovered or was even able to walk to the hospital, or if that even happened at all.  

Also, there were multiple religious references throughout the story.  Georgie said Jesus several times while crying when he was cleaning up blood that actually was not there and later when they were driving around in the car he said he wanted to go to a chapel and worship.  Then, the narrator describes a scene he thinks he sees in front of him of a graveyard and above it the sky was opened with angels descending.  But it turned out it wasn’t a graveyard; it was a drive in.  I can’t make much out of the reason for these references, if there is any.

Honestly, I did not enjoy reading the story because I couldn’t understand why it was written.  The very last line didn’t seem resonant with what I had learned about Georgie previously.  He told Hardee the hitchhiker that his job is saving lives.  He did seem  to save Terrence Weber’s life though, all he did was pull a knife out of him and he saved the baby bunnies from the dead mother only for them to be killed by the narrator.  I did, however, go back to read the beginning again to see if it would enlighten me any.