Tag Archives: chronic illness

Stuffing Nemo

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Sue Vincent

It wasn’t forecast snow today, so I regarded the heavy white flakes falling doggedly to earth as simply adding insult to injury as I faced the morning without my customary coffee. Not so much ‘out of coffee’ as ‘not allowed’. … Continue reading →

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Possum ergo facit – I can therefore I do.

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Sue Vincent

Today, as I watched my son walk a few steps unsupported down the hallway of the home in which he lives independently, preparing to walk his bride to be down the aisle in a few months’ time, I was struck … Continue reading →

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P.T.S.D a post revisited

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Sue Vincent

It is, I am told, Mental Health Awareness week. Alienora Taylor wrote of her own experience in her blog today. I have chosen to repost the piece below. It can happen to any of us, for whatever reason. For me it was … Continue reading →

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Diary 23rd July 2009

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Sue Vincent

Nick had a day of ups and downs yesterday. As his eyes clear and he begins to work through the withdrawal from the impossibly heavy doses of morphine, paralysing drugs and other narcotics pumped through him over the last  weeks … Continue reading →

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Ambition

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Sue Vincent

I remember, when I was a very little girl and my mother a beautiful young woman, that every time she was dressing in those wide skirted, narrow-waisted gowns that made her, in my eyes, look like a fairy princess, there … Continue reading →

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