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Beveled Blue

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Stephanie

My husband’s out-of-the-blue diagnosis was confirmed seven years ago. It was a suffocatingly hot morning, the last Monday in June. For weeks beforehand I had a profound and decreasingly punctuated sense of dread. I was at the wheel of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Love and Loss | Tagged Atul Gawande's "Complications", bad news, blue, Grandma's on the Roof, grief, intuition, memory, Ode to Horace, ring, sapphire | 3 Comments

A Divet and a Button

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Stephanie

I attended an extraordinary memorial service today, at Tufts School of Medicine, for the families of people who have donated their bodies for medical study. I know from my husband’s own first year as a medical student at Tufts that … Continue reading →