Just Checking
Just Checking As my friend the heroin addict says, You're only as sick as your secrets.Emily Colas -- young, intelligent, well-educated wife and mother of two -- had a secret that was getting in the…
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Just Checking
As my friend the heroin addict says, You're only as sick as your secrets.Emily Colas -- young, intelligent, well-educated wife and mother of two -- had a secret that was getting in the way of certain activities. Having a normal relationship with her husband. Like touching people.
Getting a job. Socializing. Eating out.
Like leaving the house. Soon there was no interval in her life when she was not just checkingThis raw, darkly comic series of astonishing vignettes is Emily Colas' achingly honest chronicle of her twisted journey through the obsessive-compulsive disorder that came to dominate her world. In the beginning it was germs and food.
By the time she faced the fact that she was really losing it, Colas had become a slave to her own hobbies -- from the daily hair cutting to incessant inspections of her children's clothing for bloodstains.A