Name: My Lobotomy: A Memoir, Paperback/Howard Dully
Brand: Three Rivers Press (CA)
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At twelve, Howard Dully was guilty of the same crimes as other boys his age: he was moody and messy, rambunctious with his brothers, contrary just to prove a point, and perpetually at odds with his parents. Yet somehow, this normal boy became one of the youngest people on whom Dr. Walter Freeman performed his barbaric transorbital or ice pick lobotomy. Abandoned by his family within a year of the surgery, Howard spent his teen years in mental institutions, his twenties in jail, and his thirties in a bottle. It wasn t until he was in his forties that Howard began to pull his life together. But even as he began to live the normal life he had been denied, Howard struggled with one question: Why? October 8, 1960. I gather that Mrs. Dully is perpetually talking, admonishing, correcting, and getting worked up into a spasm, whereas her husband is impatient, explosive, rather brutal, won t let the boy speak for himself, and calls him numbskull, dimwit, and other uncomplimentary names. There were only three people who would know the truth: Freeman, the man who performed the procedure; Lou, his cold and demanding stepmother who brought Howard to the doctor s attention; and his father, Rodney. Of the three, only Rodney, the man who hadn t intervened on his son s behalf, was still living. Time was running out. Stable and happy for the first time in decades, Howard began to search for answers. December 3, 1960. Mr. and Mrs. Dully have apparently decided to have Howard operated on. I sugge