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Continue reading →: Alone Again, NaturallyChapter 25 Well, I spoke too soon. I knew I was jinxing it when I wrote about it. No matter- Bob and I broke up. The lesson I learned was “always listen to your gut.” For quite some time now, my intuition was telling me that he is not my…
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Continue reading →: Finding Love after LossChapter 24 So…I’ve been seeing someone for a few months now. I guess he’s my boyfriend? I’ve avoided putting a label on it and making things official, but it seems I am in a relationship. We met on Facebook Dating, and I was just about to take myself off the…
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Continue reading →: The Impact of ObesityChapter 22 Over the summer I took a psychology course at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). It was a lot more work than I counted on, but I enjoyed it immensely. I never took it in college all those years ago, and I always wanted to, so I figured, “what…
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Continue reading →: Be the Architect of Your Own LifeChapter 21 Ever since my disastrous “annus horribilus” in 2023, I’ve been on somewhat of a journey to reclaim my life. It started small: I basically just had to get through a life-threatening illness and the tremendous loss of my husband, my life partner, the love of my life. And…
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Continue reading →: Risks as a Transplant PatientChapter 20 When the hospital sends you home with the piles of medication, they give you a container that looks like a zippered book. It’s a daily pill sorter with many compartments for each day, for a week’s supply. That’s not going to work if you go away for more…
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Continue reading →: Ongoing CareI thought I could get away with one post on recuperation and recovery, but here’s a bonus one because some people asked me about ongoing care. Which leads me right into a short discussion on health care. See the photo? That’s the number of pills I had to take in…
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Continue reading →: RecuperationChapter 18 I’ll keep this brief because there’s no need to draw it out. I can sum up the months of recuperation fairly easily: follow-up doctor visits, removal of the drains hanging off me, blood/urine draws once a week with 77 tests performed on them, eating a very lowfat diet…
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Continue reading →: The CEO of DeathChapter 17 I’m going to take a break from all this alcohol talk, but I’ll be back to it at some point. There’s just too much to say about it, and since I stopped drinking, it seems I see it everywhere. But now’s not the time. When your spouse dies,…
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Continue reading →: Alcohol Plays Such a Big Part in our LivesWell, another holiday season is behind us, and I turned 63 yesterday. I’m locked away in my office upstairs with Primo while some windows are being replaced in my house. I thought this would be as good a time as any to write another blog post. When I started this…
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Continue reading →: Donating Organs or Being the DoneeChapter 15 It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I have a good reason for not posting recently. First, I was tied up stage-managing a play for Marblehead Little Theatre (and in the process, rediscovering my love for the theatre, which has brought such additional joy into my life). The performances…
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I’m a recovering alcoholic, retired attorney and recently widowed. I decided to write this blog as a way of coping with profound grief, dealing with being sober after years of abusing my liver, and managing my recuperation after a liver and kidney transplant. Thank you for taking this journey with me.
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