Revulsion

by | Nov 16, 2021 | general

Maybe you know the sound of the “CF cough.” It is wet and has a gurgling quality. And when you have seen with your own eyes what is actually doing the gurgling, it can be a repulsive sound. It can cause you to gag, because you know at a cellular level what the sound...

Jean

by | Nov 11, 2021 | general

Jean was a traditional mom. Born 98 years ago in a small town in Nebraska, she was never one to buck convention. When she married her high school sweetheart, she converted to Catholicism to please her husband, and proceeded to churn out babies. I was the last of...

Library Days

by | Nov 11, 2021 | general

Library Days were the best part of summer. This wasn’t just because I loved to read and the excursion to the city library resulted in six (the maximum number allowed) new books. It was more than this. It was my own version of therapy that was necessitated due to the...

Dr. Gibbs and the Dungeon

by | Nov 9, 2021 | general

No doctor in my home town knew how to take care of children with cystic fibrosis. This is not surprising. It was the 1960’s, and only very recently had there been a diagnostic test discovered which could indicate the cause of the child’s problems, a disease recently...
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