“Everyone Gets a PRN for Ativan upon Arrival…”
A short, unfinished piece written about the psych ward I frequented in Winnipeg, Manitoba… Everyone gets a PRN for Ativan upon arrival. “Nurse, can I get an Ativan?” “You would...
“Letters of Complaint: The Art of Getting What You Deserve as a Human Being” – Letter #2
February 6, 2010 Mr. Dan Kooner c/o Shopper’s Drug Mart/D. Kooner Pharmacy 1755 Broadway E. Vancouver, BC V5N1W2 Dear Mr. Kooner, First of all, I would like to thank you...
A desperate letter from the Amazon Jungle…indeed, I am home early, and can hardly believe I made it…this correspondence sent to a friend sums it up to some degree…
Dearest ____ , oh my fucking god…or i guess i should say “jésus cristo” after leaving Lima things started to turn bad…we took a bus to a “desert oasis”…i assumed...
Physical Pain vs. “Mental Pain”…
Now finding myself in, what I suppose the docs would call “moderate to severe” physical pain, on a daily basis, due to long untreated endometriosis that was masked by atypical...
And falling into fall….
1. Requiem for a Summer We work like slaves all year for this – a moment in the sun, blinded in gold, past sinks into present tense, the future does...
A family of trees falling…more writing from last summer.
Would you like your receipt?” Why are they printed when 90% of the time the answer is no? They they’re thrown in the garbage, because we’re too lazy to walk...
Psy-”Experts” – Give me my baby back!…very, very short institutional ethnography…
After two wonderful days with my fiancee in our lovely new home, with our kitties, good food, good books, adventures (of course!), a return to “normalcy” for the first time...
ps: atypical antipsychotics masking endometriosis…
I was curled up in the fetal position, in pain and tears, while writing that last post – because, six years of being on various atypical antipsychotics (since age 19)...
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