“You mean to tell me,” she shouts through the video monitor, “that after only two visits, you have diagnosed ADHD as the cause of my struggles, when I’ve spent years in therapy and doctors’ appointments, without relief?”The delay, explained by treatment of significant depression and anxiety, offers little solace for her years of suffering.

New world virus. Acute Leukemia.Suffering alone, “no visitors allowed.”Wicked pain forbidding sleep.Relief, please –Groggy,Footlong eyelashes obstructing vision.Beetles crawling up left arm.Kidnapped by night nurse: (malicious intent).No one knows.Orange walls, secret room.Must escape!Pack bags – Push IV pole – RUN! My iatrogenic delirium.(Courtesy of opiates and sedatives)

I had run the hill past the Montessori school hundreds of times.