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Pump It Up

Backstory: The reason I started going to Parkland Hospital is because Methodist refused to see me because of my lack of ID. So I contacted…

4 min readMar 26, 2022

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Pump It Up

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Michelle O'Kane

Genetic Defect Goes Exponentially Mental For Realz

May 6, 2022 During one of my recentish stays at Baylor Hospital a social worker came to my room. This isn’t unusual. What was unusual was…

4 min readOct 14, 2022

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Genetic Defect Goes Exponentially Mental For Realz

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Michelle O'Kane

Don’t Pass Me By

I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive Listen for your footsteps, but they don’t arrive Waiting for your knock, dear, on my old…

3 min readOct 14, 2022

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Don’t Pass Me By

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Michelle O'Kane

To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise…

1978 Trinidad, Ca. Dear Mother- Thanks for your nice long letter. Michelle wanted to send you the deer she colored & cut out, so I’m…

3 min readOct 4, 2022

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To flee from memory Had we the Wings Many would fly Inured to slower things Birds with surprise…

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Michelle O'Kane

Life Without An Algorithm.

It’s cold here — California cold — but it’s frozen in Prague. J. drove me to the airport and I left. The people in Prague are cold. Snow…

2 min readOct 4, 2022

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Life Without An Algorithm.

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Michelle O'Kane

Genetic Defect Goes Mental For Realz During one of my recent hospital stays a social worker came…

Anesthetics activate memory-loss receptors in the brain, ensuring that folks don’t remember what happens during surgery. The activity of…

3 min readMay 30, 2022

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Genetic Defect Goes Mental For Realz During one of my recent hospital stays a social worker came…

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Michelle O'Kane

Birth Of Venus

13 min readMay 18, 2022

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Birth Of Venus

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Michelle O'Kane

Squeeze My Lemons

Squeeze My Lemons Because I fell up and right outta bed, ‘ed, ‘ed, bed, yeah!

3 min readApr 10, 2022

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Squeeze My Lemons

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Michelle O'Kane

With a little help

When I was writing my last post I was thinking about my wonderful friends, who would write me notes so I knew where I was when I woke up…

1 min readMar 26, 2022

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With a little help

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Michelle O'Kane

Belfast, 1994

We have been stopped by British checkpoints 2 times. The first time was a couple of days ago. The officer was very friendly and let us…

2 min readMar 18, 2022

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Belfast, 1994

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Michelle O'Kane

Michelle O'Kane

Writer. Rememberer. Forgeterer. After emergency surgery I lost 90% of my memories. And all of my hair. These days I write about life, because life’s a jig.

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