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Aging / Disability / EDS

The Twilight of Diagnosis

Twilight – that time between the clarity of day and the murky darkness of night. When I got diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) at 55, I was told by the doc that it was untreatable and uncureable and to just go home and forget about it. Once so much came online about it, I was able to get further but except for odd surgeries, cysts and hernias, it all seem to just go along without massive problems.

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29 January 2022
Disability

I’m back…

My last post before today was nearly 2 years ago. In the meantime, I've been working on moving to Maine and healing from my last surgery. A year after our move, I'm working on figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I may be old but since Mom's still alive at 98, I may get even older still. In the meantime, I still have…

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7 July 2019
Opinions

Are Millenials Listening?

I am an angry white old person. Yep. I'm angry at many things right now as many people are also, but one of the nastiest quiet bits of today's political situation hasn't been highlighted like the rest. So what am I angry about? The administration. Need I say more? Totally disgusted at policies and behaviors. Tried to emphasize the dangers of Trump's presidency before the election. My first presidential election?…

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7 July 2019
Humor

Life’s Little Lessons

A friend of mine, Eunice Spratlin, took a tumble last week. Unfortunately, her 80-year-old ankle didn't hold up very well. Since she's a big fan of my columns, I thought to write one for her. When I visited her, ensconced in a hospital bed in her daughter-in-law's front room, she didn't even give me chance to ask if she'ld like that; she just asked if I had already written one!…

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16 June 2002
Humor

Short and Sweet

After I returned from Japan, I kept threatening to write a book entitled "How to be tall at 5’2". I wrote for a weekly entertainment magazine while in Okinawa and was always on the lookout for the zany, the odd, and/or the different to use in my humor column there. (I was going to compile those witty pieces into one volume with that title.) The most obvious difference for me…

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16 October 2000