Flipped: A Drug-Induced Journey to the Event Horizon of Insanity

By Robert P. Cantu

What appears to have been a miracle antibiotic drug to relieve the painful symptoms of Diverticulitis proves to be problematic as an adequate treatment. He goes on to experience many, many debilitating side effects from the drug. The antidote is worse than the original condition. The result is mental illness that goes on to plague him for two years while under the medical treatment. Only through the combined skill of several doctors does he escape the Black Hole of permanent mental illness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Aug 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781463448288

Robert P. Cantu

The author has written over twelve short stories, fifteen technical papers published in several magazines, over 50 poems, and is the winner of NAPIM’s Pioneer Award in 2001 and the TAPPI Bettencourt Technical Award in 2007. Cantu worked for thirty-eight years in the chemical industry. Now retired, he lives part of the year in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the remainder of the year in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, where he writes, hikes, and stays active as both an amateur astronomer and naturalist.

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