Tag: friendship
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Dear Kerry: a letter to my Captain
This is an open letter to my transplant nurse, my captain, my friend.
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In sickness and in health… or not
I now have the mental and physical bandwidth to focus on something other than staying alive and fighting for my life. That means shedding light on the other major update in my life: I’m getting divorced.
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My big list of how to help (because we need it)
Don’t ask the sick or recovering friend how to help, tell them your three ideas and let them choose.
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Life Lately: September 1, 2022
Today marks day +63. This has been the longest summer on record. It’s all new. There’s no planning. And I have to be fine with that.
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Finding a Swift Cure for People Like Me
Science is badass and after what I’ve been through this year, anything is possible. What if your dollars help find a cure?
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When Work & Life Collide
This post is a bit all over the place but I’m filled with so much gratitude for my employer, my colleagues and the incredible medical system that is Cleveland Clinic.
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Guest Author: My MS sister-in-arms, Marcella
I have a friend who is so wonderful, so unique, so artistic and so talented she defies description. We share many things but we both have MS and were diagnosed within the same year. I asked for her perspective.
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Guest Author: We Can Do Hard Things
Every day is a roller coaster, literally. She can go from chatting and pink, to gray and moaning within a few minutes depending on the drug they have given her.
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The Waiting Game & Disappointment
I feel a bit like Beetlejuice in the waiting room of the afterlife. He’s holding the number 9,998,383,750,000 and the “Now Serving” sign says 3.
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Guest Author: Observations from Chemotherapy
Wednesday was a hard day, and I was just an observer and a pack mule. My perspective is one of friend, caregiver and all-around sassy, judgement-filled short person.
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