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JOY Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/tag/joy/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/cindydeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cindydeboericon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 JOY Archives - Cindy DeBoer https://cindydeboer.com/tag/joy/ 32 32 184530663 Leaky Breasts and Other Hot Messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:56:02 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4332 Recently, while at work at the psychiatric hospital, I caught a glimpse of myself in a patient’s bathroom mirror and noticed a large wet spot on my t-shirt just below my left breast. It was an odd location for a spill, but I chalked it up to my clumsiness and threw on a hoodie to […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2023/04/13/leaky-breasts-and-other-hot-messes/feed/ 2 4332 Ode To A Lumpy Body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ode-to-a-lumpy-body https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:33:30 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4290 Hairy legs and sun-burnt nose When at the beach, anything goes. Unbrushed teeth and happy-hour drinks This much I know: my breath stinks. Fish for dinner plus a fruity potion Diet be damned, I'm at the ocean. Sand in my bed, and in my salt-fried hair, Sir, what is the time? Wait. Why do I […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2022/02/18/ode-to-a-lumpy-body/feed/ 16 4290 Thanksgiving Eve Sucks https://cindydeboer.com/2021/11/25/thanksgiving-eve-sucks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanksgiving-eve-sucks https://cindydeboer.com/2021/11/25/thanksgiving-eve-sucks/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:34:08 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=4245 Sometimes holidays conjure up more pain and despair than joy and celebration. That’s true for me, anyway, on the day before Thanksgiving. It was 2013 and with the table set, the turkey stuffed, and pies complete, my husband and I spent the day before Thanksgiving driving to Ann Arbor to meet with a pulmonology specialist. […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2021/11/25/thanksgiving-eve-sucks/feed/ 33 4245 Lessons from the brain dead https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-from-the-brain-dead https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:19:10 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1464 I was absent from one of the most transformative events in my life. It happened to my husband while in Guatemala but left an indelible print on me and I’ve never been the same since. Back in the day when we believed visiting Guatemala regularly would bring lasting change to the country, we often included […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/07/18/lessons-from-the-brain-dead/feed/ 14 1464 Six Critical Life Lessons Learned from a Hacker https://cindydeboer.com/2019/05/09/six-critical-life-lessons-learned-from-a-hacker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=six-critical-life-lessons-learned-from-a-hacker https://cindydeboer.com/2019/05/09/six-critical-life-lessons-learned-from-a-hacker/#comments Thu, 09 May 2019 16:53:34 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1176 I was furiously typing away – hoping to complete another chapter of my book in the two hours I’d managed to wrangle free. Suddenly, a warning popped up on my screen, “CAUTION! You have a virus attacking your computer! Stop immediately and call Apple: 555-5555” (the title of this blog should let you know why […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/05/09/six-critical-life-lessons-learned-from-a-hacker/feed/ 5 1176 On Dying Slowly https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/25/on-dying-slowly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-dying-slowly https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/25/on-dying-slowly/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:44:28 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1146 One of the lowest, crappiest things well-intentioned people say to you when they find out you have a terminal illness is this: “Well, you know, we’re all dying really.” Of course we are. Nobody believes these bodies will last forever. But sometimes it just stinks to be me because someone gave me a TIME LINE. […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/25/on-dying-slowly/feed/ 12 1146 Is it possible that snow in April, stupid lung diseases, and other atrocities could be good for us? https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/11/why-experiencing-snow-menstrual-cramps-disease-loss-and-other-atrocities-could-be-good-for-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-experiencing-snow-menstrual-cramps-disease-loss-and-other-atrocities-could-be-good-for-us https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/11/why-experiencing-snow-menstrual-cramps-disease-loss-and-other-atrocities-could-be-good-for-us/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:28:31 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1108 We lived in the most glorious, sunny, mountainous and palm-treed locations both times that we lived abroad. Aix-en-Provence, France and Casablanca, Morocco are two dreamy places to have once been called “home”. While living abroad, we met people from all over the states, as well as from around the world. Then we all moved on […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/04/11/why-experiencing-snow-menstrual-cramps-disease-loss-and-other-atrocities-could-be-good-for-us/feed/ 5 1108 The Worst Houseguest Ever (and how to get rid of her) https://cindydeboer.com/2019/03/14/the-worst-houseguest-ever-and-how-to-get-rid-of-her/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-worst-houseguest-ever-and-how-to-get-rid-of-her https://cindydeboer.com/2019/03/14/the-worst-houseguest-ever-and-how-to-get-rid-of-her/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:19:26 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=1024 We’ve had the worst houseguest all winter. In fact, I’ve never despised anyone more. It’s bad enough she showed up unannounced – but now she hangs out in the WORST possible places, and REFUSES to leave! I’ve been downright rude to her and I’m always telling everyone how much I hate her, even when she […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/03/14/the-worst-houseguest-ever-and-how-to-get-rid-of-her/feed/ 11 1024 The 5.7 Billion Dollar Question (the one nobody is asking…) https://cindydeboer.com/2019/01/18/the-5-7-billion-dollar-question-the-one-nobody-is-asking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-5-7-billion-dollar-question-the-one-nobody-is-asking https://cindydeboer.com/2019/01/18/the-5-7-billion-dollar-question-the-one-nobody-is-asking/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:49:50 +0000 https://cindydeboer.com/?p=909 When we were young – perhaps our early thirties – we had an excess of money and were picking up steam to make considerably more. Our trajectory was secure. We owned all the pretty things, had a solid retirement account, the kids’ college tuition neatly tucked away, and, should we have died, our offspring would […]

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]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2019/01/18/the-5-7-billion-dollar-question-the-one-nobody-is-asking/feed/ 6 909 If I only had 10 more years to live: https://cindydeboer.com/2013/12/24/if-i-only-had-10-more-years-to-live-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-i-only-had-10-more-years-to-live-2 https://cindydeboer.com/2013/12/24/if-i-only-had-10-more-years-to-live-2/#comments Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:28:00 +0000 http://cindykdeboer.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/if-i-only-had-10-more-years-to-live-2 The phone finally rang – two days, three hours and fifty-seven minutes later than it should have.  I was a shredded pile of emotions from the waiting.  She took an infinitely long breath, cleared her throat, and dealt the blow:  It is as we feared – lymphangioleiomyomatosis.  I know what you’re thinking:  that’s not a […]

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