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I will miss you / August 22, 2020 / Leave a comment

Words hurt, especially when you can’t find them

Joan Didion called it the “vortex effect,” the sudden overwhelming grief triggered by a memory.  After ten years that feeling…

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The three kiss-offs / April 23, 2015 / Leave a comment

Thinking can be dangerous to your health

A number of posts in this blog have mentioned the irony that Laura’s brain cancer first struck in the left…

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Whoever you are, I love you / May 11, 2014 / Leave a comment

Anne Mei’s Mother

In some cultures a woman’s name changes when she has her first child.  She becomes known as “Mother of ______.”…

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The three kiss-offs / March 11, 2014 / Leave a comment

Doing aphasia

The last post ended with a caution that I was using nouns to talk about activities.  I mentioned the six…

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The three kiss-offs / March 10, 2014 / Leave a comment

Aphasia hurts

A few months after Laura died I heard a podcast recording of a talk on grief by a Zen Buddhist teacher…

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The three kiss-offs / February 21, 2014 / Leave a comment

Living with aphasia

The dryer This incident happened in October 2008 after the operation on the infected plate on Laura’s head, described in the fly-by.  I was struggling…

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The three kiss-offs / February 20, 2014 / Leave a comment

Aphasia: the phases

Aphasia told Laura there was a problem.  For years she would sit next to Anne Mei on her bed and…

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The three kiss-offs / February 18, 2014 / Leave a comment

From the pain of aphasia to the aphasia of pain

Mention of Laura’s aphasia in a recent post reminded me how much pain the loss of her language skills caused Laura…

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I will miss you / February 16, 2014 / Leave a comment

My dear grief

When I decided about two and a half years out that I really was becoming fond of someone else, I…

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The three kiss-offs / January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment

The team: three kiss-offs backstory 1

The surgeon had said that we would meet with his team the week after the biopsy. We thought that meant…

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