Immigrant children are suffering abusive treatment and cruel and inhumane conditions in government detention centers. (CD) U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of Los Angeles ruled on Monday that a Texas detention center for unaccompanied immigrant children and those forcibly separated from their families by the Trump administration must stop administering psychotropic drugs without parental consent. “A federal court has now […]
So I finally received the call I’d been dreading for years. It was about mom, of course. She’d been suffering from an illness under that quasi medical rubric “dementia” for at least nine years. That’s back when she started repeating herself noticeably, voluntarily giving up her drivers license and not helping pack for the big move to Costa Rica because the task confused her. For nine years the disease progressed relentlessly, shredding and collapsing her short, intermediate, and long term memory stacks – essentially everything that made her the extraordinary woman she was.
