Tag: PTSD

• The Woman in the Wallpaper–Part One

  I am posting this autobiographical essay in parts because the original essay was written as such. I wrote this in response to a course requirement in the Advanced Composition course at Simpson University. Every detail, even the seemingly miniscule, is true to the best of my recollection. The exception is the name change of my […]

  spoon13

  July 15, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, Death, Epic Fail, firstfridays, Lifelines, near death experiences, Personal, Uncategorized

  bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Crash and Burn, Death, Flashbacks, Intropections, Personal, PTSD, Saturday Mornings, Shame, Surviving Burns, The abysss, The Struggle is Real

• Excerpt #2 (1000 Deaths)

  Burn injuries are not like a broken bone that once healed, can be concealed by flesh. There is no place to hide, no protective shell to retreat beneath. Four days from this writing, July 4th, will be my 19th burn-a-versary.  There are many deaths from burn injuries: 1000 surely seems exaggerated, unless you are the […]

  spoon13

  June 30, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, Lifelines, near death experiences, Personal, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  cracked pots, Death, Flashbacks, Intropections, Nothing but the dead of night, Personal, PTSD, Surviving Burns

• Excerpts from 1000 Deaths

  I am posting an excerpt from writings I began several months ago. It is a true story, written in the present tense, of life after burns, yet the story in its entirety does tells of the accident,  subsequent hospitalization and such. The title 1000 Deaths is a temporary, working title at this point.       […]

  spoon13

  June 16, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, firstfridays, Nearly Dead, Personal, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Flashbacks, Intropections, Personal, PTSD, Saturday Mornings, Surviving Burns