Vicki Wells Bedard

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It’s so easy getting duped….

I worried about my parents, grands, aunts/uncles and wondered how they were coping with Medicare or Social Security. I remember taking Grandma D to the clinic, asking what the call would cost. She wrote the check, and we were bundling up to head back out into the snow. While I waited, one of her friends …

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Christmas – and slipping away from all I love

Christmas is coming … but I am slippin away from all I love. I have lost my freedom of choice to a brain that’s dying. Talking is tuff, but performing an action shows me I have lost “my free will”. Pray for me, and forgive me as I begin to forget you… But those cards …

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…and a Day in the Life of VWB

Two days after Thanksgiving: Recovered from the 8 hr kitchen foray and the overeating and the fact the sun was shining and it was warm enuf to go without a jacket I thought it time to start the Christmas season @ home. I thought, without too much trouble I could string the garland. Now. To …

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It should be so easy to live my life …

No responsibilities, no work hours, no demands – or at least demands as you might see them. But it is. That horse I cannot make drink, is this abysmal child in my head. “What would you miss or fear most?” I was asked. I thought it meant losing the ability to speak. I had no …

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You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but… Part 2

My mother had a way with adages, like this one. Her ending would be “… you can’t make her eat.” Well, whether eat or drink, my brain has become that horse. For the last 6 months, it’s like there’s a Mini-Vicki that has taken control of anything my will wants done. Maxi-me says, ‘Tomorrow I …

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