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On feeling better

September 26, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’d like to add to a conversation started here at Huffington Post, and continued here by the very thoughtful Julie Gillis.  In the original Huffpo post, Christy Heitger-Ewing lists 8 things you should […]

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Grief

Chronic illness: acceptance, denial and the reality we make

September 9, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

Mama was diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) in the late 1990s, right around her fiftieth birthday. She had a big birthday bash planned at The Palm. She had bought […]

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Chronic Illness

Finding your own inner barking dog

September 4, 2014by Lesley Ramsey 1 Comment

A lot of these stories are really about me figuring out they are stories–narratives, if not wholly fictions—that I have used to make sense of my life. And a lot […]

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Grief, Life with Benny, Recovery

Going with the flow

September 3, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

Whoever said buying things can’t make you happy? This product makes me happy. Aside from the barking, Benny had (and still has) another very bad habit. Benny pees anywhere he damn […]

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Life with Benny

Denial and distraction, and barking dogs

August 22, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’m not an expert on grief and grieving. I’m not really sure I need to be to be able to offer some insights. As uncharted as this territory was for me […]

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Grief, Recovery

Grief and the problem with tenses

August 20, 2014by Lesley Ramsey Leave a comment

I’m having a little trouble choosing the right verb tenses to describe my life with Benny. Sometimes in these pages I will tell you about a specific event from the […]

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Grief, Life with Benny, Recovery

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