Vicki Wells Bedard

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  1. Odds & ends 11-5-2010 — 13 comments
  2. Hot hot hot — 11 comments
  3. Papa, it’s me … — 10 comments
  4. You cannot tell the content from the title — 10 comments
  5. Journal 7-7-10 — 9 comments

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Hold that elevator!

She was a stubborn child, up for a fight with whomever got in her way. Her pout was de rigueur. Her foot stamp was background noise to her life. Of course, she had freckles, and strawberry blonde pigtails. You would be able to recognize her in any family photo. The one with arms crossed, and …

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Communion of all my saints

Papa, you’ve given us a beautiful day to remember the saints / Saints who have walked and lived among us. The ‘gathering of saints’ brings to mind the many saints who have been influential in my life. I think readers will be surprised that along with St. Rita (impossible dreams), St. Francis & Mother Teresa …

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My mother said “there’ll be days like this”

I’m struggling thru the disappointment of: – spending money for a terrific cause, the International Association for Frontotemporal Dementia, and then being too ill when there to attend. – of not having the opportunity of meeting my friends from the FTDSupportForum.com, when they were mere yards from me – and knowing in my heart I …

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Day 3 of destructive thoughts planted by my doctors …

WHO has the right, aside from Papa, to tell us how long we have to live?! If not the Republicans nor Democrats, then who? A doctor who skims the notes, flips her hair (but in a perky way) and dismisses all the tests by other Neuro/Psychiatrists as “nonsense”? I think not. A Cancer specialist who, …

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You cannot tell the content from the title

They no longer come in and couch their findings from your last trail of tests. They don’t say we have bad news and good news. They come in, stoicly dressed in professional whites, and flip past the latest tests, recommendations of the other physicians on your team and, with a hair flick, dismiss them with …

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