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Thursday, May 01, 2025

James is Home

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  The box is lovely, made by a Pennsylvania Amish craftsperson. I fell in love with the beautiful knot and hoped the box I ordered had a sim...
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Gone

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My last post sounded hopeful. And indeed sometimes it was hopeful. At the beginning of February, James was transferred to a different room,...
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Long Day's Journey into Long Days and Longer Nights

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 I've been blogging much longer than I've ever been on social media, but those little dribs and drabs of posts are so much easier wh...
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Monday, December 30, 2024

Piper

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Oliver, as tiny as he was, left a big gap in the household. Even as late as Thanksgiving, I was still having nightmares about him. One day, ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

Dialysis Blues, Lone Christmas, and Farewell to a President

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  James had dialysis two days in a row this week. Since Christmas fell on a Wednesday this year, and they obviously didn't want to take...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Pancakes, Mysterious Happenings, and More Doctoring

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  Sigh. James' restless legs have done it again. Now he's torn a hole through the dark blue sheets. So I had to go to Walmart on Mo...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

I Give Christmas My Best, But It Isn't Much

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  We had fun with friends this week; yes, these days it's such a rarity that I have to headline it. On Saturday we went to Hair Day, al...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

Christmas and Treatments Trickle In

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  Well, it was a bad week for medical solutions for James. Dr. Connally was very firm that she wanted James to undergo some kind of aquathe...
Sunday, December 01, 2024

Reasons for Thanks and Reasons for Sorrow

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  Tucker did have the ultrasound to make sure he had nothing nasty going on inside him on Monday. He passed with flying colors. Next day an...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Tucker's Odyssey

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  After two meltdowns on my part, and Tucker finally being so fed up with me that he started growling and snarling at me, he slowly started...
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Sunday, November 17, 2024

The Dreadful Week

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  There was no warning. It began fine: I had bought James a new duffle bag for our anniversary to take to dialysis (the old bag was falling...
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Sunday, November 10, 2024

The Turn of Events

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  We saw our first Christmas lights Monday night, November 4! I love Christmas decorations, guys! But, too early! Tried to avoid election ...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

Changes in Space and Findings Whilst Shopping

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  James has finally seen the spinal doctor at Emory! Not that it did him much good. The appointment was wayyyyy over at the old Executive P...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Back to This

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  James finally had an appointment with the pain clinic, even if it was just a video visit. After looking at James' spinal scans, Dr. C...