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ER
I got a call this afternoon from the Dialysis center. Vernon’s chest catheter had been acting up for a couple of weeks, enough to close some of his sessions early. It had been getting clogged—at least, that was the description I was given. After that, I don’t know how to elaborate. So today, after another faulty…
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Nightswimming
It was a tough week. The frequent ups and downs in Vernon’s recovery and the effort and time trying to build him up to better levels of comfort and clarity has been exhausting, to be honest. I’ve allowed some unnecessary dramas to get under my skin as well. I don’t know if its temporary burnout or if I…
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English Assignment: A Personal Narative
Maki Adams Ms. Whitaker English 1 October 4th 2015 “Yes” Everything was good. At school, I had three “F”s, two “D”s, and an “A”. At home, I had a stepmother, little sister, and a dad who loved me. We had also recently got a new addition to the family, a 1977 Vespa. To…
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Staying Alive
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Super Soul Sunday
“To be broken is no reason at all to see things as broken.” —Mark Nepo I probably shouldn’t get too attached to Sunday visits, because I can’t expect the Logies (whom Justine has dubbed “the Beatles”) to show up with at least part of the family every week forever! I do know not to get attached to anything to…
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Autumn Cleaning
Soundtrack to this post: Fashion by David Bowie I’ve decided to make October my Autumn-Cleaning month. If I were my old self, I would have allotted a weekend, maybe a week. But now I know how long everything takes, especially on the domestic front, so I’m giving myself October. First things first though: my bedroom. Remember…
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Family Matters, Pt 2
It’s 7:25 am, I’ve just finished going over Maki’s Spanish vocabulary test for his test today, while he ate his cereal. I marvel at his adolescent memory skills. Were we really all like that once upon a time? Here is the continuation of our individual family updates that I couldn’t finish last night. Earlier this…
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Family Matters, Pt 1
My thoughts are all over the place today so in an attempt to corral them, I’ll break tonight’s post into chewable bites, as in: Life According to Each Family Member, October 1, 2015. I’ll start with Vernon, because he is the reason this blog even happens. A few weeks ago, after receiving some generous donations, I…
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Finding Neverland
“I don’t know if you have ever seem a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time.…
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Feedback
I just received an email from another woman by the name of Alison. She arrived at our story because she knows my parents, but I only know her from a phone call a couple of weeks ago. She had answered the request for people to sign up to sit with Vernon during Dialysis, and had…