Category: The Samantha Years
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PumpkinMelon
The sun is out! The sun is out after a couple rainy days meaning my puny three-inch plants are now blossoming into leafy little monsters. My garden is starting to look like a small Jurassic park. But have no idea what I planted. This happens every year. I get a tad overzealous in my planting…
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Weekends Part One
Somewhere in between hospital stays, therapy, dirty laundry, seizures, meds, tube feedings, and oxygen….. You have to live your life. You have to celebrate the big things Like Amy and Shawn tying the knot. You have to gather the village…. Even if members of the village are having some issues. Small issues, like an upset…
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You Can PICC Your Friends…..You can PICC Your Nose
Samantha’s PICC line was taken out today. Her PICC (otherwise known as a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) has been in her arm for seven weeks. Usually PICs are accessed for about 30 days so seven weeks was getting a little long. Perhaps it was time…. I have bittersweet feelings about the PICC. It’s a direct…
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Renew
When you spend two months back and forth from the hospital, things tend to slip. The other day a sales clerk asked me if I was aware that my driver’s license had expired…. “Expired?” I said, “No way.” “Way.” It expired on my birthday…. Which was in January…. I thanked her because no I had…
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Mr. Toad’s New House
Summertime brings toads to our garden. They hang out by the tomatoes, under the tulips and are just well, toads. They also get stuck in the window wells. And they can’t get out. And I feel bad. It’s a poor fate for a toad, to be stuck in a window well in 90+ degree weather.…
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