Some of you know that Favorite Husband and I have been on a bit of an adventure. We loaded up my little van — Beverly Hillbillies style — and headed South where we spent our first night with Number One Son who was celebrating a birthday. After wonderful conversation and time with his family, we continued on to Amtrak’s auto train. This was a new experience for me and, for the most part, their systems were impressive. I say for the most part because due to…
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Are We Lost Yet?
Not long ago, I got together with a group of wonderful women friends. And, as is usual with this group, it took us a while to catch up on our “regular” lives. Trips and home renovations. Grown kids. Grandkids. Husbands and health. Pets and gardens and pests. Day-to-day life — both mundane and magical. One of our sister friends shared about feeling deeply frustrated. She had quite willingly set aside all of her outside interests to care and advocate for her partner who suffered a rare…
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The Good, the Bad and the Medical: Off-loading Spare Parts
“It was a dark and stormy night.” Oh, no. Wait. That’s for bad fiction. This is a story about bad reality. Medical reality. In a hospital. Well, maybe not all that bad. Judge for yourself. I had been diagnosed with a fairly significant bulge in my neck — a disc that was creating a lot of pain and causing lots of trouble with my right hand and arm. So, after multiple x-rays, MRI’s and doctors’ visits, surgery was scheduled. [bctt tweet=”Despite my conviction that my right…
