Month: January 2012
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Judgey Judgerson
Call me Judgey Judgerson. My post last week was comparing my grief to someone else’s grief. Perhaps that was poor form. Last week, a dear friend of mine had come home from Germany because her father had passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. While my friend was away taking care of her family,…
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Lunchtime Topics
Today I was at a business lunch. The woman we were meeting with was grieving the loss of her 14 year old lab-husky mix. She talked openly about her loss with tears in her eyes. “I miss him so much. He was my baby. Losing him was like losing my child.”The words hung in the…
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Expectations
Last Monday was my birthday. “41, life’s just begun,” ….this is what my husband has claimed as my mantra. It’s a good mantra but at 41, I feel I have lived quite a lot of life. We drove to Fort Collins for a fancy birthday dinner. On the way over, my husband asked if I…
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I still have a dream
This weekend I was reading through Facebook and came across a very disturbing post- a post that I had to think about and process for a while. A transplant doctor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is recommending to his team that they deny two year old, Amelia a kidney transplant because Ameila is “mentally…
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What Lies Beneath
Hubby was lucky enough to go to last week’s Bronco game. I was nice enough to pick him up after the game. After a run and a little shopping, I decided to watch the rest of the game at a downtown hotel with a glass of wine until hubby called for his Chauffeur. I whisked…
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