My Lobotomy

I flinched.
She said, “Oh, did that hurt?

Dave had kept quiet so far, but I could see he was getting impatient. These weren’t the answers he wanted. So he handed me a couple of photographs and told me to ask

It didn’t occur to me that I had a drinking problem, but I knew I had a life problem. I knew I wasn’t happy. While all this craziness was going on, I was trying to do something about that. It just took me a while to get past the craziness and into something more normal.
It took Barbara.