Howard Dully
He was 12-year-old when he underwent lobotomy. According to Dully’s father, his stepmother who claimed dully was defiant took him to several doctors, who all said there was nothing wrong with the small boy. But, Dr. Freeman who claimed Howard had childhood schizophrenia performed his unnecessary surgery on him, which incarcerated Howard as it took him decades to recover from the surgery.
“If you saw me you’d never know I’d had a lobotomy,” says Howard, who was 56 as at 2006. “The only thing you’d notice is that I’m very tall and weigh about 350 pounds. But I’ve always felt different — wondered if something’s missing from my soul. I have no memory of the operation, and never had the courage to ask my family about it…”
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I was Lobotomized in 1962 and I didn’t realize it happened until about 40 years later. It was on the road between New York City and Salt Lake City. My mother and her sister were driving a new VW and stopped at a clinic in Michigan. They put me on a table and made a bloody mess of me with a blade and put a towel over my face to control the bleeding. I remember a very painful surgery and screaming screaming and screaming while being cut open. Dr. Keith Lane says there isn’t a visible scar but, I had a doctor in 2009 that graduated from NYU and asked him if it was probable that this did occur. He (Dr. Harold Valery) said it was common to lobotomize children in NYC during the sixties. In my youth I was a physical wreck, never brushed my teeth or exercised and never could keep up with other kids. Of my using pot in 7th grade and having to see a Psychologist for months Mike Olsen (a parapsychologist) told me, “most people smoke marijuana with no consequence but, to you it is major ordeal”. He advised me not to use it and is an example of the effect of the surgery. In 2001, I lost a truck driving job at CR England and Walter Hood the instructor said It was because I had attention disorder. In 1985, a Provo Doctor, Dr. Christian Hopps had given me Ritalin 3x daily 5 mg. and told me to use it proudly and depend on it for as long as I lived. Dr. Hopps said people would be jealous and try to steal the narcotic and in 1986 a Nurse Kathy Rheimer told me I couldn’t have it. I studied at the College of Health in 2004-2008 and found it shocking that the Psychology Teacher thought Psycho Drugs were pleasant to take. A 3rd District Salt Lake Mental Health Court Judge Bill Bohlin told me to attend the University but, the school didn’t give me my diploma over a technicality. It’s really, really miserable experience to have a Lobotomy and/or to take the drugs they use now to replace that surgery but they clearly ruined my life. Dr. Sarah Helmer in Provo, Utah told me Lobotomy was invented because doctors and hospitals can’t control the noise, silly behavior, violence and vandalism in their institutions due to the patients. She also told me my mother was really a loon.