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Coming Down the Pipeline
Just sharing a brief update… or let’s hope it’s brief, because otherwise y’all might just get a wee bit bored, or a lot bored. *sigh* In the saga that is the medical establishment, my doctor has been unable to procure a PET scan approval from my insurance company in order to begin pursuing why my…
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This Ordinary Life (It’s Extraordinary)
Music streamed throughout our house. She skipped down the stairs all ready to bake her strawberry cake. I smiled at her Spiderwoman dress (I mean, after all, who DOESN’T cook as Spiderwoman?). He trailed behind her, art supplies in hand. “Mommy, I’m so glad I’m a big enough girl to bake things on my own.”…
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A Sort of Quietness
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort…
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A Tale of Two Diggers
“Mommy? May I snuggle down in your bed until I fall asleep? I don’t know why, but your bed just feels safer to me.” She looked up at me expectantly, and it was one of those moments where I knew I just couldn’t say no. She’s been more clingy since school started, and sometimes she…
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Long Story but It Ends Well
It has been weeks since I’ve written and weeks of waiting and waiting and waiting to determine just what exactly is going on with my thyroid. Since April, my cancer markers have been elevated, and I have ultrasounds that show possible evidence of cancer but with no growth. It could just be calcification from previous…