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Whew! Got the shots
My daughters got the first of their two H1N1 shots in school yesterday. I didn’t realize how anxious I was about H1N1 until my daughters came home from school with Band-Aids on their little shoulders and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders. When the news of the virus first hit, I tried to…
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New York City, where the Internet is paved with gold
Dwayne and I celebrated our anniversary last week — 8 years of marriage and 11 years of unwedded bliss before that, so, effectively, 19 years together. Happy! To celebrate, this past Saturday, we left our daughters with my sister for the afternoon and then with my mom overnight, and we headed to New York City…
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Apparently, my cancer is travelling to the East Coast
Now that I live in Pennsylvania, I have to find new oncologists, of course. Recently, I spent a stunning amount of time on the phone getting registered with the docs at the University of Pennsylvania. The doctors there in the breast cancer center are named “top docs” in a number of places, and they’re known…
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Hair detergent, or What Happens When You’ve Lost Too Many Brain Cells
Today I was chattering along with my husband as we headed to Target to get a few necessities for the week. We were trying to make a list, and I remembered a conversation we had earlier in the week, when my husband said that we were running low on our daughters’ shampoo. So, I asked…
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Archaeology
The new house we are renting has a lawn, a side garden, and a tangle of ivy in the back yard. My mom and a friend of hers came to help me get the side garden going, but I have been on my own to unwind the ivy tangle in the back yard. Mind you,…
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Just a year ago
I just re-read the e-mail I sent to myself and to my husband the night before I had surgery for breast cancer. My surgery was exactly a year ago tomorrow. After writing and sending that e-mail, I remember sending it off and then going to bed. In the morning I had to wake up quite…
BeTwinned
[Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered]
