Can a brainpan babble?
Most of us have before/after days in our history, days that divide our memories into distinctive realms: before we bought the house, before the baby came, after 9/11. Some of them we share with many people, while others are our own personal markers for events that changed everything about the way we live our lives. I have such a day that is the stuff of nightmares even after the passage of many years. It pales in comparision to the one that brought profound change to my friend Whim’s life. You know those terrible things that you read in the paper, the things that happen to other people? Whim is one of those people. On December 21, 1994 her world was changed forever, not by accident, not by fate, but by the vile act of a despicable excuse for a human being. That was the night of the fire. Whim’s blog journals her road back to normalcy. It can be hard reading sometimes. She’s brutally honest about the physical, emotional and mental demons she wrestles. Those who live with depression, PTS
