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03410aam a2200373 i 4500 001 65AB811A383E11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 221015t20232022nyu 000 0aeng d 020 $a 9781982188283 020 $a 1982188286 035 $a (OCoLC)1347427616 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d HRF $d NBJ $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a RC548 $b .B66 2022 082 04 $a 362.299092 $2 23 082 04 $a 616.8/4982 $2 23 100 1 $a Bond, Melissa $q (Melissa A.), $e author. 245 10 $a Blood orange night : $b a memoir of insomnia, motherhood, and benzos / $c Melissa Bond. 250 $a First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Gallery Books, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 279 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "Now with a new bonus chapter"--cover. 500 $a Previously published with the subtitle "My Journey to the Edge of Madness"-- title page verso. 505 0 $a Part one : insomnia. ABC wants to know -- His heart -- Sting and the radiant boy -- Easter egg blue -- The night rises and grows pale -- Scribbles on a page -- Part two : the book of sleep. Manic -- Blur -- Redemption and the manga chick -- Pool of the pelvis -- Specimen haze -- Slip 'n' slide -- Stage of the bargain -- Into the soft air -- Part three : Dr. Amazing. "It's an incredible drug" -- The lost year -- Cave-in -- The sky is falling -- "Kiss the kids, I'm sorry" --- Blazing green with no red in sight -- Siberia -- Part four : great balls of fire. Down by five -- Hunched and cocky -- Five-foot dragon -- Giant black wall of destruction -- Normal -- The insomnia tapes -- Benzos don't have cleavage -- The book of waking -- Metaphor of the holes -- After -- Never not broken. 520 $a "As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines--a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan--and increases her dosage regularly. Following her doctor's orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor--like so many others--has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences. Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa's struggle--how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children."-- $c adapted from page [4] of cover. 600 10 $a Bond, Melissa $q (Melissa A.) $x Health. 650 0 $a Insomniacs $v Biography. 650 0 $a Benzodiazepine abuse. 650 0 $a Insomnia $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Autobiographies. 941 $a 1 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240702042844.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65AB811A383E11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search