thanks

because a year ago today

she tried to do herself in

and thankfully she wasn’t 

any good at it

and thankfully the insurance

covered her week in the

psychiatric hospital

and thankfully we had enough

in savings to take her

to that famous brain doctor

in Orange County

who provided pretty scans of her

imperfect cerebellum

and thankfully

we finally could toss out all

the misdiagnosis alphabet soup

ADDADHDBPDepression

and discovered a new path

SPD
and thankfully
she's free of all the meds
and their prison of side effects

and thankfully

she’s slowly getting better

and thankfully she got to do

a normal teenage girl thing

and go with her friend

to the midnight premiere

of “The Hunger Games”

and I could not have imagined this

a year ago

 so I say in all humility

thanks.