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5 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
"One of Freeman's youngest [lobotomy] patients is today a 56-year-old bus driver living in California. Over the past 2 years, Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy." npr.org/2005/11/16/501…
"As those who watched the [lobotomy] procedure described it, a patient would be rendered unconscious by electroshock. Freeman would then take a sharp ice pick-like instrument, insert it above the patient's eyeball through the orbit of the eye...."
"....into the frontal lobes of the brain, moving the instrument back and forth. Then he would do the same thing on the other side of the face...." npr.org/2005/11/16/501…
"In an entry dated Jan. 4, 1961, two and a half weeks after the boy's lobotomy, Freeman wrote: "I told [12-year-old] Howard what I'd done to him... and he took it without a quiver. He sits quietly, grinning most of the time and offering nothing."" npr.org/2005/11/16/501…
""I'll never know what I lost in those 10 minutes with Dr. Freeman & his ice pick," Dully says. "By some miracle [lobotomy] didn't turn me into a zombie, crush my spirit or kill me. But it did affect me. Deeply...." npr.org/2005/11/16/501…
"Walter Freeman's operation was supposed to relieve suffering. In my case it did just the opposite. Ever since my lobotomy I've felt like a freak, ashamed."" npr.org/2005/11/16/501…
"In late 2004, Rodney Dully agreed to talk with his son about the [lobotomy. He said Howard's stepmother] "took you...I think she tried some other doctors who said, '...there's nothing wrong here. He's a normal boy.' It was the stepmother problem."" npr.org/2005/11/16/501…

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