Not All There

Gable never knew her mother when she was well or was told that a lobotomy caused her behavior. She only knew the erratic, unpredictable person who drank and raged and had little impulse control. Now a mother herself, Gable tries to make sense of the surgery and accept the person her mother was versus the person she once had been.

Author: Mona Gable
Source: STAT
Published: Oct 27, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1,988 words)
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