When Bullying Goes too Far - Seph Lawless

(I’m sorry that I had to add a watermark but this photo would be added to the arsenal against Pat had I not)
Pat lives in the same condo building as Joe Melendez. Pat is 37 years old and has worked in the aviation
industry for the past 15 years. He travels to locations where airplanes are broken down and fixes them.
He has a 15 year-old cat who according to Pat is, “an asshole but can be very sweet”.
In the summer of 2016, Pat was hit by a car. He spent the next 23 days as a patient in the Metro Medical
Health medical system. Pat says, “I have nothing but good things to say about Metro. I had to learn to
walk again, relearn how to use my fine motor skills in order to return to work. My time as an inpatient at
a brain trauma unit will remain as a defining time in my life. The things I saw and the people I met gives
me nothing but respect for the issues that individuals with traumatic brain injuries suffer from. I have
what would be considered a mid-range severity brain injury. I am fully deaf in my right ear as a result of
the accident. The accident also severed my auditory nerve. As a result I also have severe tinnitus.
Additionally I will have balance and concentration issues for the rest of my life.”
When I first corresponded with Pat, I asked him point blank how he felt about being labelled as