Tag: memories

• How do you say Goodbye?

  

  Two weeks ago, during what I thought would be a routine telepsychiatry appointment, Monalisa told me something I wasn’t prepared to hear. Our next appointment would be our last. We were reviewing how the medications were doing. A recent increase in Effexor had helped resolve a brief resurgence of depressive symptoms that had begun to…

  Dave

  January 16, 2026

  Compassion, Family, Mental Health, Outside Life, patients, Random Thoughts

  Family, memories, mental health, remember, sad, thinking

• The Chair

  

  On Location My first real job out of college wasn’t in medicine, or anywhere near an ambulance. It was in lighting — the kind that makes concerts glow, trade shows sparkle, and corporate galas look like the Grammys. The company was called On Location Lighting Systems, or OLLS, based out of northern Kentucky just south…

  Dave

  November 11, 2025

  Compassion, Family, Humor, mental health, Outside Life, Random Thoughts

  busy, coworkers, Family, friends, memories, mental health, regret, remember, sad, thinking, work