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    Lockdown Loneliness
    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 6 min

    Lockdown Loneliness

    Lockdown Loneliness My very first lockdown and its’ twin companion, loneliness, took place from 2015 through 2020. I found myself stuck...
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    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Sep 30, 2020
    • 13 min

    End the War on Pain Patients

    In 2012, life was great: I proudly wore a white coat with a stethoscope around my neck and finally felt useful to humanity. Two decades...
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    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Aug 31, 2020
    • 4 min

    Life as a Disabled, Heartbroken Artist

    At what point, do we give in to despair? Several times, the last few years, since becoming disabled, or rather, much worse disabled, I...
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    Good Grief: Disability & Death
    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Jul 31, 2020
    • 4 min

    Good Grief: Disability & Death

    The last blog was about the loneliness of disability, or bad decisions, or both. This was supposed to be part 2. Well, I lost my dad this...
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    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Jul 1, 2020
    • 6 min

    The Brutal Truth about Isolation & Loneliness

    Part One: This may be my most dire blog yet, about the near death from total isolation that I suffered for the last half-decade. It's not...
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    The Inhumane Lockdown and Covid-1984
    Kaatje Gotcha
    • May 31, 2020
    • 4 min

    The Inhumane Lockdown and Covid-1984

    Politicians, social media companies and journalists are responsible: The deaths from collateral damage are on their conscience.
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    Surviving Five Years of Isolation, and Five Weeks of Covid-19 Lockdown
    Kaatje Gotcha
    • May 1, 2020
    • 3 min

    Surviving Five Years of Isolation, and Five Weeks of Covid-19 Lockdown

    The cold and, for me, always painful winter had barely retreated when the first signs of lockdown arrived in downtown Albuquerque. I...
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    Spinal Cord on Fire? Your Dad Dying? Cook a Kickass Curry!
    Kaatje Gotcha
    • Mar 7, 2020
    • 3 min

    Spinal Cord on Fire? Your Dad Dying? Cook a Kickass Curry!

    The weeklong ketamine infusion is wearing off, and my eternal companion, the severe nerve pain is returning while my dad is dying. What now?
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