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My son’s two children are three (girl) and five years old (boy) and live in a tiny grungy two bedroom apartment with their mother and the mother’s girlfriend. When I visited them, they looked like they hadn’t had a bath in days, the apartment was dirty and the mother and girlfriend looked even more unkept.Continue reading “Hello Rock, Meet Hard Place”

So I just got off the phone with my son. He is going through a break up with the mother of his two children and her girlfriend. For the sake of this article we’ll focus on the mother of my grandchildren and my son, and how their situation is highly triggering for me. First, aContinue reading “Where There Are Similarities, There Are Triggers”

It’s been all over the news, homeless encampments throughout the city. I see the tents as I go by in a taxi or on the bus. There’s always been a sort of distance between them and me. Until recently. I went with a friend of mine to one of the homeless encampments to help sortContinue reading “Being There Made It Real”

So I went to the dentist for the first time in a long, since before Covid-19, and the outcome was not what I was expecting or hoping for. The seventeen teeth I have left all need to be pulled out due to rampant tooth decay. I will need a full set of dentures. My toothContinue reading “So Long Teeth, Hello Dentures!”

At my last weigh in I had a goal of being under two hundred and ten pounds. I would have had to have lost nine pounds, instead I lost only one pound. I was very disappointed, to say the least. In my head I called myself names and told myself I was disgusted with me.Continue reading “So I Didn’t Meet My Goal…”

So it’s been a couple of weeks since I had my second bladder sling surgery and I gotta say, so far, so good. I have not leaked due to a cough or sneeze, the sling is doing its job. It isn’t doing anything for the urge incontinence, nor was it supposed to. There is anotherContinue reading “So Far So Good And Next Steps”