This blog is dedicated to the clients from Dawson Court lodge that I met while working as a nurse's aide during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anne Geddes, George Maycock, Miss Herd, little Doris, and Miss Friday were some of the vibrant characters that spent the end of their lives as disabled citizens living in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

I was not a mental health client then but shortly after I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and given amphetamines.

Canada once had the reputation of being somewhat easier or more liberal to its citizens than the U.S. During the Vietnaam war draft dodgers fled conscription to reside in Canada. Many returned to the U.S. as soon as they could, claiming that, as Carol and Arnold Austad said to me that the sun shines much brighter in the U.S. I have not heard from them since they left Vancouver to get some kind of dispensation for having fled during the war, returning to the U.S. in about 1976. We did not speak of the cia among the group of people I knew then: We did not speak not; we spoke not of them.

In a way this blog will mention them not.

By the time I met Arnold and Carol, I was already a full fledged, unhinged lunatic, having been diagnosed in about 1973-4 as schizoaffective by an Irish psychiatrist living in Vancouver...Dr.Courtenay.

Firstly, I'd like to share with you my efforts after being inspired by the city of Edmonton: http://dissmenot.blogspot.com