Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘irregular heartbeat’

A face I’ll never forget

This is a face I’ll never forget. At the same time, I wish I’d never seen it. Yet I look at this photo every day. It reminds me that I’m not the center of the universe. As Jew-hating Twitter users never tire of pointing out to me, I suffer from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress…

 

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Explaining mental illness to stupid old Jew-haters

A couple of days ago, a Ron Paul toady named Martin went after me on Twitter for having the temerity to disagree with him. He was incapable of answering any questions I asked, and at the end of his hours-long spewage, he blocked me so that I couldn’t respond to him. Well, today he unblocked…

 

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For Tony

This post is for Tony. It’s part of the chapter titled “Lessons Learned,” from Ghosts and Ballyhoo. Things Just Might Turn Out All Right When I was sixteen, I died. It was an attack of irregular heartbeat, the primary cause of death from cardiac arrest. Medications have kept my episodes under control since 2007, except…

 

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