Earlier I wrote about a friend who's getting electro-convulsive therapy, or ECT.
She's back home now after several weeks of shocks, three times a week. She was one of hundreds who would line up to receive their shocks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the clinic. She was one of the worse-off people in line. There were elderly people, middle-aged people, young people, and even children. Some were afflicted with only mild depression, and others suffered from major, clinical depression.
Apparently my friend is back to normal, her husband says. She's talking, laughing, and interrupting people like her old self. And she doesn't have any short-term memory loss, which is wonderful.
We are going to have dinner with them tonight, and we will see for ourselves the miraculous change that ECT hath wrought in our friend. I will try not to scrutinize her and her behavior in a too-obvious way. ;-)
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