Category Archives: Living With Depression

Coping With The White Russians

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Gabriel...

White Russian: old fashioned glass, add ice, 2oz vodka, 1oz Kahlua, finish with chilled 1% milk… glass size and ice optional, adjust alcohol to taste. Vodka is best stored in the freezer. Colder the better. Healthy alternative to pop: fill … Continue reading →

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Protected: But He Made It Out… With A Bullet In His Back

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Gabriel...

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Victory Is Both A Name And A State Of Mind

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Gabriel...

Things didn’t get worse last week, which means they got better. According to the doctors at the Ottawa General Hospital, this was supposed to be the week my son should have been born. He would have been almost two months … Continue reading →

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Next Week Our Baby Will Be Born Two Months Premature

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Gabriel...

If the doctors are right my son will be born next week. The surgical procedure they performed on my girlfriend, called a cerclage, has almost entirely failed. A cerclage is a stitch, or clamp, placed in or around around a … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up After Nine Months Of Neglect

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Gabriel...

My apartment is slowly becoming less filthy. For most of this past year, and the last few months of 2008, I was living on two-thirds of my prescribed dose of anti-depressants thanks to a pharmacy screw up. It took me … Continue reading →

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Proof Of The Life Of Brian And How It Saved Mine

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Gabriel...

I have a large collection of Blues music, but it came to me mostly by accident and from only one source. At the beginning of my College journalism program we were assigned a local celebrity. We had three months to … Continue reading →

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