10-12-2018, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2018, 12:25 AM by Drunk Monk.)
Katie was a very close friend, a psych nurse that I met through Rock Med, a true Deadhead despite being in her late 30s and not really been Jerryed ever. Known as Nurse Rainbow in our circles, she always wore the loudest tie-dyes.
We hung together outside of RM too. We spent a weekend at a winery with her and her husband Brian and some other RMers. We also went to Fare the Well in Chicago together and wound up hanging in their hotel room with some others after one of the shows. Brian and Katie were the only friends of mine that showed up for the talk I gave at the Museum of Oakland.
I just got word from Brian. She ODed. I don't know the details. I didn't even know she was in that deep. She always had it together, although there was one night I spent counseling her over phone and text after one of her longtime patients shot himself to death while she was counseling him on the phone a few years ago. She was horribly shaken by that - who wouldn't be? Now I'm horribly shaken. Didn't see this one coming at all.
I'm absolutely heartbroken.
We hung together outside of RM too. We spent a weekend at a winery with her and her husband Brian and some other RMers. We also went to Fare the Well in Chicago together and wound up hanging in their hotel room with some others after one of the shows. Brian and Katie were the only friends of mine that showed up for the talk I gave at the Museum of Oakland.
I just got word from Brian. She ODed. I don't know the details. I didn't even know she was in that deep. She always had it together, although there was one night I spent counseling her over phone and text after one of her longtime patients shot himself to death while she was counseling him on the phone a few years ago. She was horribly shaken by that - who wouldn't be? Now I'm horribly shaken. Didn't see this one coming at all.
I'm absolutely heartbroken.
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