Tag Archives: medical leave

tuesday: 1st proof of our book arrives! “how to stay sane: when it all gets too much”

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

we are Beside ourselves with excitement, darlings, because the 1st proof of our book about Tobias and his sisters and medical leave and What We Learned is Here! we are going to read diligently, obtain guidance from lady-of-letters (who has … Continue reading →

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tranquil lunch: we will miss this (final day: medical leave)

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

we will miss these tranquil lunches – just us and a notebook and a novel and at least an hour stretching into the afternoon. this medical leave has changed us; for the better. more later, darlings. but may we say … Continue reading →

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flirting and Fellini and Mastroianni and Loren and love

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

If you’ve been following our medical leave, you’ll know that sitting in a darkened cinema while our glands grow back and we heal from the surgery has been an essential part of our journey. so we were doubly-thrilled – Tickled … Continue reading →

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attempting to stay just ahead of the depression.

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

This had to happen. you don’t go through surgery, anesthesia, 21 pills a day to replace gland and thyroid functions and then be confined to a square block radius of home for over 2 weeks without depression threatening its clouds … Continue reading →

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medical leave day 14: sleepless in manhattan

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

we haven’t been sleeping that well. tomorrow we’re going back to the surgeon for a second post-op check up and……….results? you know darlings, results on whether team gloria has already joined team cancer. we probably won’t sleep much tonight so … Continue reading →

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best thing about medical leave: TIME (to read an entire novel) #Idontknowhowshedoesit

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

the worst thing about medical leave is……dealing with the pain, the pills, the discomfort, the nausea, the scars, calls from our insurance company (did they not get the memo that we had our Throat Slit and can’t return calls easily? … Continue reading →

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chet baker, a light supper of scrambled eggs and another handful of calcium pills.

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

  ironically, this is how we like to wind down on a sunday evening: novels, listening to 1930s music from the Savoy hotel, then Chet Baker, a light dish of scrambled eggs (and peas, we Are British after all) and … Continue reading →

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home. sleeping.

Posted on September 11, 2011 by

we got discharged yesterday. and now we’re entering the long, slow, path of healing. everything hurts. the 14 (yep, count ‘em) calcium monsters (we’re not producing any minerals due to removal of aforementioned glands) pills per day are nausea-producing (too … Continue reading →

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day one: medical leave: surgery tomorrow

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

as we left the skyscraper in manhattan where we work last night, we set the outgoing email message to tell news of our absence on medical leave until September 29th. the office was empty. we turned off the lights (we … Continue reading →

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