Anita

[George Boyer]

You know Anita, I've been thinking about what happened to me, what I was
experiencing after my leg was taken off and I wondered if it was at all
similar to your experience.  Immediately I was home from the drug melee of the
hospital I went into deep deep grief where I would spontaneously burst into
sobbing often without any ideation at all relating to the immediate
situation.  Also, almost immediately I found a wonderful therapist who was the
most ideal person I have ever talked to and over the course of two plus years
he was able to talk me through the acute depression and into a better grasp of
the problems I was facing.  And none of these problems, in my case had to do
with the amputation....which, it is clear to me, I had worked through
backwards and forwards up and down during the years of obsessed anguishing
over the idea of amputation and of how unrelievedly awful it would be.  Of
course what I was finding out was that it wasn't that awful but really a
matter of inconvenience, just as I have said.  But the main thing I wanted to
tell you about is about how enormously, totally cared for I felt in that very
intense couple of years with this therapist.  All I could wish for anyone
having to undergo an amputation is an experience such as this.  Does what I
have said coincide at all with experiences of yours.?  George B.