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My life is no picnic. Like most persons with these diseases I cannot sleep, eat, walk, talk well. I have had to repeatedly teach myself toilet-ing to prevent incontinence. I have had the torments of being treated like a child by the well meaning, and the impatience of those unwilling to wait for my considered [...]
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Tags: disability, disease, hospice, life, living, terminal
I’ve been on this road of neural death with diagnosis attached for about eight years. Granted a few years beyond the typical prognosis, and I should be happy about that, but it can be a mighty grim path to travel. Of late, it has not been lost on me that I make this journey solo, [...]
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It was roughly a year ago that with much haste a building a block away from mine was closed and the tenants marched out without even a chance to collect belongings. Why? Well apparently the building was not up to health and safety (leaks and mold). That of course describes a great many of the [...]
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Tags: city, conditions, east vancouver, election, homeless, housing, low rent
It was on the news the last few days. I have to wonder how they didn’t see that coming? There have been enormous outbreaks of infestation in the east end for at least a couple of years. I’ve blogged about it for at least two. The health department knew it, I spoke to them about [...]
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Tags: bedbugs, city, living, needs, plagues, poor, poverty, rich, social justice, tuberculosis, vancouveer, west end
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