Bereaved and Blessed

My London Semester Journal I: Monday, February 26, 1996

January 8, 2019

Monday, 2-26-96 1:08 AM London 7:08 PM E-Town (2-25-96) Ronald & I finally got to Chinatown at about 1PM. It was great to wander the streets & see all the festivities going on for the Chinese New Year Celebration! I even bought a little paper dragon for a souvenir & a fortune cookie which read, […]

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Rewind 2018

December 31, 2018

7 years ago I participated in a year-end blog meme for the first time called Rewind 2011, with fun and interesting questions designed to get writers and readers to reflect on our lives in 2011. I did so again the following year, with my Rewind 2012. Ever since I did this writing exercise those two years, […]

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High Probability of Being Benign

December 20, 2018

That is my biggest takeaway from the diagnostic ultrasound of my right breast this morning. The form they gave me at the end had a boxed checked by the words “high probability of being benign.” Other options/boxes they didn’t check include: normal, benign appearing (not malignant), short term follow up is recommended, findings that may […]

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My London Semester Journal I: Sunday, February 25, 1996

December 19, 2018

Sunday, 2-25-96 10:13 AM London 4:13 AM E-Town It’s Sunday morning. And so far is a lazy one… just the way I like `em! I am still in bed. Ron is still sleeping. So I decided to write some about this weekend. I met Ron at Waterloo Station Fri. night & then we popped into […]

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My London Semester Journal I: Friday, February 23, 1996

December 18, 2018

Friday, 2-23-96 10:00 AM ish London 4:00 AM E-Town “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…” J/K I just had to write that for some reason, cuz it was going through my head! So anyway, yesterday we had a field trip to Greenwich for architecture class. It was a cloudy, cold, & drizzly day… […]

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A Questionable Finding

December 15, 2018

I keep having to look at the exact wording, as I couldn’t remember for the life of me, over the past few days. The phrase was part of a letter that was emailed to me with results, after I spoke with a woman who does scheduling for the breast care center I went to, for […]