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Art Night
Before anything else, I must say a big THANK YOU to all those who sent words of encouragement this weekend. I haven’t been able to sit down and write back to everyone, but I want you to know I appreciate it so much. I feel good, lifted, and loved. Thank you from the bottom of…
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The Darling Buds of May
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”—William Shakespeare The long month of May is rapidly moving toward the 23rd, the date that two years ago, our lives moved into a totally different sphere. It’s also Friday tomorrow…THE Friday. We used to count Fridays to know how long Vernon had been in the hospital.…
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A Different Brain
Last night, a friend in the UK sent me a link to the new Louis Theroux documentary on BBC2. She’d seen it as it aired a couple hours earlier. I managed to find a version online that I could stream from the UK. But I also found a version to share here with you. It’s on…
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Melodica
We went to Mesa Verde earlier today to see Vernon. He had been given something for his pain so he was groggy in bed when we arrived, but the sight of Maki got him going, so we took him outside, where the Logies met us a little later. “You’re my favorite,” Vernon announced to his son, despite…
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Post Script
I meant to add this picture to last night’s post. It’s a copy of CT scan results on Vernon’s head a week after the accident. I recently rediscovered this paper, which is still around from June 2014 because I kept moving it to the top of various to-research piles. A nurse had underlined things that she thought would…
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Placement
Something about ending last night with the reintroduced possibility of Ativan must have triggered a nagging thought in my head all day. I realized that though the mere mention of the drug causes me to react in a beady sweat, the doctor might have been responding to a complaint earlier in the week. It doesn’t mean there…
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Time Management (and a Proposal)
It was a both good and bad day at dialysis. Unfortunately, he didn’t arrive till 11:15 for his 10:45 start. And then then didn’t get hooked up on the machine for another 45 minutes after that. So it was two hours after I left my house that I even got to go in an see…
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Advancing
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” Khalil Gibran The high point of Saturday’s dialysis visit was Vernon’s obvious interest in a book I’d brought him. It was written by a Traumatic Brain Injury survivor about his own recovery. For me, I haven’t always enjoyed reading about other tbi survivor’s…
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The Purge
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” ― Marie Kondo I’m on a mission! On my quest for organization in my home and in in my head, I’m on the next round of purging useless belongings. It started about…
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Alert and Aware
I’d hoped to be there for another of Vernon’s gym sessions today, but the time got backed up till afternoon since there was a queue for the bike. I’d already talked him into working out, which he was afraid would hurt his poor leg more, but the RNA (a different one today) told me that…