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The Gift of Adult ADHD – a glimpse of something! (LOL)
I found The Gift of ADHD (2005) book a few years before I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist that specializes Women with ADD. Usually women go undiagnosed. This book changed my life. When my husband asked me after almost 27 … Continue reading
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Tagged ADD, ADHD, Adult ADD, Adult ADHD, Gifts of ADD, Insight, Intuition
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Wasaga Beach and LSD
Between starting Grade 10, September 1972 and the end of warm enough weather to warrant going to Wasaga Beach, my new bestie and two of her friends and I are going to head north. I don’t remember the lie I … Continue reading
Posted in illicit drugs
Tagged acid, crashing, guilty conscience, LSD, not quite 16, out of body, paranoid, promiscuity, tripping
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Almost 16
Sometime between me playing hooky from hairdressing job to turning 16 we moved from Scarborough back to Agincourt. These days referred to as Malvern. My parents won a lottery to purchase a home which was geared to those below a … Continue reading
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Tagged 16, drugs, inappropriate behaviour, jealousy, moving out, sixteen, tension
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Get a Job without Typing?
Between grade 9 and 10 we moved back to Scarborough from Agincourt. I’m a student at Winston Churchill High School, apparently rated as the drug capital for teenagers! Guess they never went to Agincourt High where in the first few … Continue reading
Posted in eleven to sixteen
Tagged apprentice, fifteen, grade 10, hairdressing, shorthand, typing
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A Little Cheesy
During my first year living with my new (favourite) Mom, getting used to being allowed to raid the fridge whenever hungry took a bit of getting used to and there always being cheese in the house was an elixir. I … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Uncategorized
Tagged an old dog new tricks, cheese, emotional eating, inflammation, obesity, osteoarthritis
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The Angiogram Adventure
Originally sent as a text message and/or email to a few, very specific family members and friends and has been edited in the meantime. The angiogram, scheduled March 16, 2023 at 8:15, is a follow up to check for other … Continue reading
Posted in medical adventures
Tagged adventure, allergy, aneurysm, angiogram, contrast dye, hydrocephalus
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The Talk (not exactly birds & bees)
It’s the summer of 1970. I’m 13 years old but will turn 14 in November during my first year of high school (grade 9). Visualize 5′ 10″ tall (almost 6′ at 18), 150 pounds and everything in the right place. … Continue reading
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My First Bra
There is one other thing I remember from my school days, Grade 7, with friend Cathy. She and I went to Sayvette, a discount department store, which closed its doors many moons ago. I mentioned in a previous blog that … Continue reading
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More secrets, NO!
It’s been awhile since I graced these pages with my erudite thoughts, if only!! Since then I requested my long birth certificate which provided some, perhaps astonishing, insights. Even more revealing was the receipt of a “family bible” which was … Continue reading
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Love of my Life
I met the love of my life the spring of 1995, I was 38 years old. Not one for recalling dates, wedding anniversary included, without the aid of an electronic calendar I worked backwards from the year I got married … Continue reading
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