Anecdotes of a soul searcher
My scares and triumphs over the last year 2024-2025
So here we are—March 2025—four years after my last post and nine years since the coma. Are you sick of my grief math? I’m sick of it too. Let’s throw it away! Be gone, grief—for now, anyway.
Let us call this post: From Death Bed Diagnosis to Flower Bed Revival: The Beginning of Being Type One Diabetic. HA! You didn’t expect me to say diabetic. Lol. You thought this was another coma blog. Ha! Tricked you. This is about my sugar, sugar.
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Five years out, y’all.
March 12, 2016. Exactly five years ago, I was admitted and intubated.
March is weird, and it has been a rough five years.
Repeatedly, I was told ARDS survivors take five years to return to work. FIVE! I said, “Nope, not me! I’m not going to take THAT long.” Just another time I was royally wrong.
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Being a mom means dealing with mom guilt. For moms of more than one child, it’s “mom guilt multiplied.” For moms of an only child, it’s “mom guilt amplified.” Regardless of what we call it, mom guilt can wreak havoc on our minds from time to time. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t at every turn in today’s world. I’m here to say, let’s let go of that guilt together.
I want to dedicate this post to my biggest source of guilt: having a singleton.
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If you know a Maury, you know we love “Chocolate and Biscuits.” We brag “chocolate and biscuits,” but what we mean is Grandma Weezy’s famous chocolate gravy poured over fluffy hot Pillsbury biscuits served alongside sausage links, with a big glass of milk or a nice hot coffee for a fulfilling savory and sweet breakfast on a cozy Saturday morning.
“Chocolate!? For breakfast ?! ”
That’s what people say when they hear us ask if they’ve ever had chocolate gravy.
Like we are somehow crazy for having chocolate for breakfast.
Count Chocula AND my Granny said it was okay, so we are good here.
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HBO has had some great shows, and no, I am not here to talk Game of Thrones, but if anyone wants to throw down Thrones talk, you let me know. Valar Morghulis. Let me add that I recognize The Wire is in the top 3 greatest shows of all time. But there is one show that is near and dear to my heart I must rank higher. The Sopranos.
Who here has seen this ‘90s and early aughts masterpiece?
My friend recently said to me, “Would Walter White exist at the level he is without Anthony Soprano first?” They are the iconic anti-heroes that made for the greatest small screen cinematic drama of their decades.
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