Category: My Story

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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Journal 8-8-2010

Today is Sunday. I thought it was Monday. I believed it so much I believed the date/time stamp was messed up on my laptop. So much so that I rebooted my satellite dish, downloaded new programming and it was only when the tech said, laughingly, “It’s Sunday, Ms Bedderd. Nothing is broken. Happens to us …

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Gary Larson, Bill Keane?? I could use you again …

Someone asked what it felt like to have an obnoxious disease and no one seeming to do anything about it I took the question to my FTD forum – especially Susan, John, Elizabeth, Jan and Linda took it and we all batted the idea around and came up with this. An army of guinea pigs, …

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Ramblings

I think you believe I hold some amazing gift that tells & leads me thru each day. I don’t. I have days wrapped like a coccoon. And days I can’t shut up. But, following my 1 year anniversary of diagnosis, leaving with the advice of “get hold of hospice and find a home” … well …

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So you’ve had a bad day…

Bad days come in all sizes and shapes, and sometimes you’ve done something so amazingly bad that even though you are the only one in the world who knows what you just did, your face turns scarlet! Yes, you can embarrass you. It’s a fact of life. One would think – being safely withdrawn from …

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