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  living with chronic pain – someone else’s: part 2

  Posted on May 7, 2013 by nikkimeredith in family, migraine and chronic pain.

  My husband walks in the door from work. I’m in the kitchen chopping vegetables.  He kisses me and asks how I am. I shrug and then place the tips of my three middle fingers over my right eye – the sign that I have a migraine.   “Oh no,” he says. “I’m so sorry.” And he […]

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• my life in a novel

  Posted on August 23, 2011 by nikki in Family Practice, the novel.

  This weekend I read my mom’s first novel for the second time. The first time I read it, almost three years ago, it was a surreal experience. Though fiction, many of the characters and scenarios in the book are based on what has really happened in my life, in our family. It is a wonderful […]

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