Me & Jim

My pal Jim Richards interviewed me. We talked about my old life, AMAD, and said goodbye.

I had a wonderful talk with a friend of mine (from when I was alive), the lovely Jim Richards. I really think it’s worth listening to. We talk about who I was when I was alive, including going to baseball stadiums and games with my father.

My father & I Rogers Center 2016. My real teeth.

In Canada, June is Men’s Mental Health Month. It’s also Pride month. It’s important to remember that many of the men celebrating Pride still don’t have equal rights. There are a different set of standards for a certain kind of person, and currently, Canada is not a country that can tout having equal rights or body-autonomy.

I am tired. I am so very tired. Those who govern the safety and practice of medicine in Canada are killing me.

I tried looking through old pictures to see if I could find one of me & Jim, but I couldn’t. I did find this picture of me at 27, which was around the time I met him. I was so unhealthy, that by that winter I had shingles (for the 1st time), and mono. I was terribly unhappy, having so much fun, and begging to die. My career was going well. I had an apartment in Montreal, and one in Toronto. I loved my life, but I couldn’t bear to be alive.

But look how cute I was.

27 years old.