“I was, you know, living like a zombie,” Amanda says. “Not even living,” she corrects herself. “Just existing.”
Her illness wrecked her career as a veterinary technician. It robbed her of the ability to effectively parent her daughter who was just six when Amanda went into the hospital.
After she was discharged, she moved from Surrey to Sechelt. She was still suicidal, she tells me.
Then two years ago, her life changed. On one of the days Amanda was able to get out of bed, she saw psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Barale at the Sechelt Hospital. Barale had begun prescribing ketamine to help people with treatment-resistant depression.
Editor: Re: “BC Ferries mulls reservation system changes for Route 3,” Feb. 5. I believe the existing reservation system is quite optimal. It accommodates tourists and locals, early planned and last minute travel, quite well.
Sechelt Rotary Club volunteers have been busy sticking and folding over the past week as they prepare nearly 1,000 handwritten cards for the Sunshine Coast’s health-care workers in time for . . .
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Baby Ruairí Singh Dhillon entered the world at Sechelt Hospital at 10:06 a.m. Jan. 4, making him the first baby of 2021 born on the Sunshine Coast. The 3.8-kilogram (8 lb. 6 oz.) infant measured 52. . .