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• Is it for real!!!?????

  February 10, 2018

  Unbelieveable!!!! I am so excited to have my OD back.  OMG, really, to be able to write again is wonderful.  And at such a time in my life.    Retirement looms in the very near, near future.  It appears as my family here are back also.  I will be back to get started all over again,…

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• Jumping Ship

  January 29, 2014

  Well I guess since the DM jumped ship on us, that I will jump to prosebox. I am still soph, but not sure if I will write there. Some habits are hard to break, and OD was always a place I could go to feel safe and get honest answers. I thank all of you…

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• A New Christmas Memory

  December 24, 2013

  Merry Christmas everyone. Today I am spending 8 wonderful hours working dispatch, and praying that the phone doesn't ring. Not unless someone just wants to wish us a merry day. After work I am going to my brothers house to watch the kids open gifts and have dinner. I cheated again this year and a...

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• Catching up

  December 6, 2013

  Well I haven't been her for a while and I have a few updates that need shared. We have our first real snow in Ohio. We like to call it the "white death." People act like the world ends when snow is predicted buying up all the milk and bread that is available. I hate…

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• Thankful

  September 16, 2013

  I have wanted to get here for the past few days, but working midnites and being busy just wasn't giving me what I needed. This is my last midnite to work and I am off the next two nights. Looking forward to sleeping and just relaxing. Summer is slipping away and it really makes me…

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• Mama update

  August 23, 2013

  I know that this is a little late in coming, but the surgery went very well. Dr. was finished with removal of tumor and two lymph nodes in what I recall as record time. He said he took the tow nodes as a precautionary move and didn't really think they were involved. Now we are…

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• Surgery Tuesday

  August 17, 2013

  Well for a quick update. Mom tested positive for cancer during her biopsy. Saw the surgeon who advised us that it is a slow growing cancer, and as of right now, it will be a lumpectomy. After that we will know about further treatment. We will remain optimistic of our outcome.Other than that, I to...

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• Kind of Numb

  July 29, 2013

  Working my last second shift for the rotation. And all I want to do is go home and go to bed. I have to drive 2 hours to Columbus for a training class tomorrow and then back home. My day off is shot. But I am off Thursday, and hopeful to get some housework done…

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• Backward day

  July 27, 2013

  Lucky me gets to work a 12 hour day/night so to speak. My regular shift is seconds or 2 to 10. But tonight I have a 6p to 6a. I slept in this morning and my phone did ring, unlike yesterday. So when I got up I had gotten a text from my friend Mel's…

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