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Here comes the sun

Posted in Blessings, Change, Coming together, Dogs, Family, Friends, Home sweet home, Keith, Kiddos, Life, Love and loss, mito, Party Time, Realizations, Sharing is caring, Smiles, Stealing words, The way I see it on 25 April 2011| 2 Comments »

Note: I wrote this blog nearly a month ago and am just now getting around to posting it because a good friend has been asking for it for ages and I thought she could use a small pick-me-up. This one’s for you, Liz…

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Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here

This winter has been one full of challenges, stresses, adaptation, loss, learning, sickness, and love. Yes, love. Without it, I’m not sure I would’ve come out as relatively unscathed on this end.

This winter, New England received more snow than it had in years. It was blizzard after blizzard. It was cold and unrelenting. Even worse, my body appeared to be taking lessons.

One thing that I’ve always prided myself on is being able to rise from just about anything and everything stronger and smiling. After December, I was petering on the edge, still smiling, but straining and struggling not to lose myself. But after the second month of medical hell, I wasn’t sure that I wasn’t going to rise.

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The Great Escape

Posted in At the Doctor's, Blessings, Boston, Dogs, Family, Friends, Hospital life, True on 19 January 2011| 1 Comment »

In the last month and a half, I have spent 40 days and 40 nights in the confines of Mass General. While I’m not yet home from this ordeal, I can confidently say that a plan is in way if they decide not to discharge me today. (The paperwork has already been started, but you never quite know…) I will be honest with all of you and say that my spirit (which I once though to be unbreakable) was starting to crack. But my dear sister Stefani would not let that happen. She and Beast devised a plan to break me out of this brig if my medical team was still holding me hostage.

Note: The captions are Stefani’s original captions.

My sidekick - waiting to rescue his princess (True)

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Chelsea and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Posted in At the Doctor's, Boston, Dogs, Hospital life, Keith, mito, reality, Sleep, True, Tummy troubles, Vampires on 9 January 2011| 5 Comments »

About 7 hours after I posted my last blog, I was finally settled in my room. By that time, my temperature had started rising. Before I fell asleep (around 8:30pm), my temperature had risen to 100.6. That’s nothing, my body told the nurses, just you wait and see! But the next vitals (around midnight), my temperature had risen to 101.8. I can’t still do better than that. My temperature at 4am was 102.4 and rising. Almost there… I hit 103.2 before it started going back down.

But my temperature wasn’t what really had them worried.

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