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All is fair

Last week, after checking my temperature, the dental hygienist led me to my exam room. “How’s your husband doing?” she asked with the...

Dec 1, 20202 min read

An August of opportunity

Though I’ve been writing regularly, I haven’t posted much lately. This is mostly for good reason. For example, my friend Elaine came back...

Aug 5, 20203 min read

Day +93 (today): Hospital Day 100 (yesterday)

Today is day +93 since transplant, and yesterday was Ramón’s 100th consecutive day in the hospital. Though each individual day has felt...

Jul 12, 20202 min read

Raise a ______ for Ramón

Happy almost birthday to this guy! It's the night before Ramón's birthday, which means it's also the eve of the one-year mark since his...

May 6, 20201 min read

Wear your seatbelt

One of these guys enjoys licking plates in the dishwasher, and the other one has a bone marrow biopsy tomorrow. When we last saw one of...

Nov 20, 20192 min read

Live oak

I recently borrowed a memoir from the local library. It caught my eye instantly because it was called Marrow, a word that entered our...

Oct 19, 20192 min read

Making this our bench

Three weeks ago we were stepping into unfamiliar places, and now we're familiar faces. Though we'd love to be home, we've found that 20...

May 28, 20192 min read

Gallery

My name is Drew Dotson, and my life has been anything but perfect, yet it's still perfectly beautiful. After growing up with a genetic disease, cystic fibrosis, I was blessed to meet an amazing man who loved me without bounds. Then he died.

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