Category: Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief
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Clean toilets
Last week I was talking to a friend who got caught in hurricane Sandy. She has been without power, without water and now without her washing machine. “The thing is,” she said, “when I’m stressed I do laundry! And now I can’t!” Being the ever sympathetic friend, I told her she could come out to…
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Election Eve
Happy Election Eve! I have decided I do not enjoy the political build up we experience every four years. It makes me uneasy, question my country and the people in it…. and it makes me miss my girl Samantha and I voted together last time. She had been in the hospital for fifteen days with a MRSA…
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Alchemy of Pain
I’ve been waiting a week to write this post. A week to let my emotions ferment, brew, stew on the complexities of this life. Last Friday I was driving up to the mountains to meet my friend Heather for a girl’s night. Along the way, I heard that Jessica Ridgeway’s body was confirmed in the open…
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What’s Your Role
What’s your role? It has been a frightening, tiring week for our Mito Families. As they have worried about liver function, seizures and fevers in the hospital, my concern this evening has been: will I have to sit in the middle seat on a four hour flight from Boston?I do hate the middle seat. I…
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Outlook on Life
I used to be a ski instructor. And I am not a good sunscreen user. This lead to a large bump on my nose. A large bump that needed to be removed. This really isn’t a big deal. It was not melanoma. I had a Basel cell carcinoma. Basel cells grow slowly, the cancer is…
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