Browsing tag : coping with death
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Life
Posted on“Tell me what is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver Life, or something like it. Grief is a hard animal … Read more Life
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What eases your soul?
Posted onFamily, friends, music, poetry, travel.. What makes you happy what makes the pain go away, if you have experienced pain. My mom and I are leaving for holiday … Read more What eases your soul?
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What Would Be Helpful to You?
Posted onWhat else would you like me to write about? I wasn’t able to find anything to help me when I was dealing with Joe’s illness and it was … Read more What Would Be Helpful to You?
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Trying to Understand What it Meant to Have Cancer
Posted onNone of us knew what to do as we were trying to figure out what was going on. Me the least it seamed. From my office in Brooklyn, … Read more Trying to Understand What it Meant to Have Cancer
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Anniverseries
Posted onThey say time heals all. Who are they? I would like to meet them. We are coming up to the anniversery of my brother’s stomachache and subsequent cancer … Read more Anniverseries
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And When the Cancer Diagnosis Came
Posted onHow I reacted when we sat down with Joe’s doctors after we had learned Joe had cancer. I sat in the middle of Joe and my mom with … Read more And When the Cancer Diagnosis Came
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How It All Started
Posted on“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” … Read more How It All Started
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Siblings
Posted onNo one ever thought I was older — ever. Joe would get a chuckle every time the bartender or waitress at the lovely restaurant he had picked or … Read more Siblings
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How Joe’s Sister Came to Be
Posted onHow Joe’s Sister Came To Be: After calling up different Cancer Care Centers, hospitals, therapists, and other outreach programs nationwide I realized there was nothing for siblings who … Read more How Joe’s Sister Came to Be
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Trying for Joe
Posted onThe last night before my world broke, my roomies James and Cary convinced me to come watch their season finale kickball game. A cement court a block and … Read more Trying for Joe
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