Amy getting started was very hard to do, I had so much to say, and wasn't sure if I had it in me to talk about it. Than I found: Just post what was on my mind at the time I was posting, forget about the time line. Thats our time line anyway.
Since I was never on Hall-7, I could not speak for the girls. Out of all the pictures I have seen, I could never picture Hall-7, if you find any pictures, post them or just send them to me and I will post on my website http://www.hall-18.com .
Once again welcome and thank you for joining in on our turning away.
Ron

amyn wrote:Hey Ron, this is Amy. Someone suggested I post to this site to give info on TCSH from a female's perspective. I'll try to post more another time but wanted you to know I've registered. Maybe you should make a forum for the ladies huh?

Hi Amy,
click image for a full-sized viewI'm Mike. I was in Hall#18 with Ronl, Are you in contact with other women who were patients at TCSH?

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Geeze Ron!!
So sorry to hear about your health problems. So ironic, that I was certified in CPR/ first response today, and the same day, I find this alert email in my "Spam" box.
Hope you are on the road to healing. I will add you to my prayer list tonight. I wish you peace and speedy healing.
[color=#400040]God only knows the blessings you are due!
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I would really like to contact you, but the mail on this website won't work. I'm just a kid but I would really like to talk to you. How can I reach you?

Go_super_Trina wrote:I would really like to contact you, but the mail on this website won't work. I'm just a kid but I would really like to talk to you. How can I reach you?

How did you want to contact us?

yesterday my webserver went down, and mail did not get delivered, I worked all night to get it fixed, it is now working, try to resend email.

Ron went to your site. Nice job and you really had a lot of information about your days there. I hope you are doing better. Best wishes for a full recovery. Like the site and thanks for all your hard work.

Ronl, hope you are on the road to recovery.
How is your writing coming along? I'm anticipating the finished product. I want an autographed copy.

The Book:
My part is pretty much done, It is in the hands of Heidi Smith, The layout and time line has been established, it should be in the publisher hands by the first of the year.
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Funny Memory:
The toilet's were the large adult commercial ones and I recall when sitting on them your feet were always dangling off the floor. These made you feel very small.

Congrats ronl for finishing the book! Will be looking forward to reading it. Thanks so much for all your efforts to expose the other side of treatment. I hope your health is improving.

Its day 3 of the flew, I am on the better side of it, I now can take in light food and liquids. I am no longer in bed sleeping 20 hours a day. I did have a few hours in bed this morning reflecting on my past, and Hall-20 keeps haunting me. The doors were never locked and there were no drugs, but I have only a few memories of it, I lived on the second floor facing the canteen and as I recall I had a private room. I remember a country boy there who also played the guitar and old F-hole guitar and he taught me a new way of playing the G chord, which I still use. We had nothing in common other than the guitar, and I do not remember his name. I remember lining up to go into the mess hall. I do not remember ever leaving my room, I do not recall a TV or even where the bathroom was. Where was the shower room, Did I ever take a shower? I just cannot remember. What I do recall is being moved into the new children hospital and was the first child there for the first few days. By the time I was moved to hall-20 I had done all there was to do at school so I never went to school anymore. I recall dark days of winter looking out my bedroom window watching people coming and going to the canteen. I recall always playing my guitars. I remember a transistor radio. I was only in the office 1 time so I do not remember any attendants just the head RN, Mrs. Warmenton and she was the head of Hall-18 too, She was very kind. She also became the head on the ward I was on in the new children's hospital.
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I was always the kid who asked WHY on everything, sometimes to the point of driving everyone crazy, and pointing it out to them that their answer wasn't the same as someone else's answers. Some people I have listened to and followed were just plain liars, I would guess to make their wortless lives seem better, just a few days ago I had the biggest liar try to influence me, later that day I found all that he told me was a big fat lie, and when I see him again I am pointing this out to him, Why is the truth so hard to say.
Like the old song by the lovin spoonful "You didn't have to be so nice, I would have like you anyway".
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Now looking back on all of this and the quite hermit lifestyle I have lived with few friends, somehow makes this all seem like a bad dream, I only recently found a few others who was in my dream to validate some of it, I also must ask myself did all this really happen, ....WHY.

I only remember a few being sent to Hall#20 and I remember some being returned to Hall#18 from Hall#20.
I was released after my 2-3 attempt to escape, so I never experience the new Hospital.
I still believe I could have made it on my last escape if it wasn't the middle of winter. I had no winter jacket on and by the time I got to the other side of the field with snow up the my waist, I was freezing. I silpped into barn #206 and tried get warm under a pile of hay. The cows were bedded down and I tried get near one of them for body heat(like I've done at home) but they were skiddish. So about 3:00 in the morning I turned myself into one of the farm houses.

I guess you could say I did make it, because I was released after a few days in suclusion.

Barn #206(right) I didn't even know they had #'s back then.

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ronl you ask Why?
'When you ask 'Why.. You are validating your own humanness and realizing you are not in control." Dr. Tim Clinton
Knowing why won't take away the pain. I wish I had a answer for you but I don't. It happened...for what what reason...no one will ever know. Sometimes you must put the why behind you and go on. I though that writing your book would enable you to do that. That's not the case. I hope in the future you can. Stuff happens and there is a reason ...but you may not ever know why. Sometimes you must let it go. Your book is finished and hopefully you can let the past go. You have faced your demons. I hope you dont think I am being cruel for saying this. You still have a life. They didn't take that.

Mike you and Ron did make it. They didn't break you. You are survivors. You should be proud of that. I respect you both very much for connecting with others...who experienced what you did. Hopefully sharing your experiences here will help your healing. It has to come out...when you keep it inside it only festers and eats you alive. All consuming in every aspect of your life. Thank you both for your effort.

Woodstock:
I was not aware of Woodstock until 1971, Had I known of this, I would somehow made it there. My life would have turned out differently I believe. I only knew of Jimi Hendrix and The Who who was there. We were so shielded only the top 10 soft bands we known of, like Racales, Turtles, Grass Roots, Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Mamas and Papas, Garfunckle and Simon. I did not know a person could play a guitar like that or make them sounds, even the stuff they wrote about was alian to me.