Tag: hope in serious illness

  • Margaret’s Magic

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    We were big on middle names in my family. Many used their middle name as their first name. I was not too hot on my middle name. It seemed so boring and so old fashioned. I guess when I knew it was my grandma’s name I felt more warm towards it. She was a strong… Read more

  • Learning to hear birdsong

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    It was a summer of contrasts, fearful imaginings and new beginnings. I met a man.  A real man.  My tumultuous and never should have happened marriage was dispersing into an empty painful divorce. We couldn’t be amicable as we never had been. My goal now was to finish the nurse training I never should have… Read more

  • My brother’s suicide

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    Perhaps because there is no goodbye it was the hardest.  Worse still anyone who has experienced this tragedy knows you piece together your own goodbye with what ifs, regrets, disbelief. And for a long time all this shapes the narrative backwards.  You doubt if you ever knew him, the truth, how he was. Every photograph… Read more

  • A Doctor for the Living 

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      Your expertise I do not doubt Your algorithms, statistics and precise patterning I can only marvel at. Your awards are well deserved  Your world renowned reputation is something I myself spread.   In the cities the Bookmakers concur  and gleam from your accuracy. Your prediction of time, of time left, of how and the how… Read more

  • Twelve Years

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    When 12 years of remission from cancer ends …. Read more