Elizabeth's Blog – May 2011 Archive (2)

My farewell to Linda

There are a great many basic facts about a person’s life that you often hear repeated at a time like this. You hear, for instance, that the woman we knew as Linda Clark came from a large family, including her twin sister and three brothers. That she met Dan, her husband of 42 years, because his sister played bridge with her parents. You hear that she worked at AT&T and at the school libraries in Andover and here in Buxton. You learn that she belonged to the Pythian sisters, the… Continue

Added by Elizabeth on May 18, 2011 at 3:38pm — 3 Comments

Remembering Linda

Every time I think I have it tough and start feeling sorry for myself, I think about my neighbor, Linda. Linda's son Brian didn't have Type 1 diabetes -- he had hemophilia. If you don't know what that is, it's a genetic disorder in which your body doesn't produce clotting factors, so if you cut your self or bruise yourself, you keep bleeding. And bleeding, and bleeding. A scraped knee is a life-threatening emergency, for someone with this disease. A simple sneeze can mean a bloody nose that… Continue

Added by Elizabeth on May 14, 2011 at 4:42pm — 10 Comments

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