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	<description>Sharing My Life with Frontotemporal Dementia</description>
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		<title>Christmas &#8211; and slipping away from all I love</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/12/christmas-and-slipping-away-from-all-i-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is coming &#8230; but I am slippin away from all I love. I have lost my freedom of choice to a brain that&#8217;s dying. Talking is tuff, but performing an action shows me I have lost &#8220;my free will&#8221;. Pray for me, and forgive me as I begin to forget you&#8230; But those cards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and a Day in the Life of VWB</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after Thanksgiving: Recovered from the 8 hr kitchen foray and the overeating and the fact the sun was shining and it was warm enuf to go without a jacket I thought it time to start the Christmas season @ home. I thought, without too much trouble I could string the garland. Now. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It should be so easy to live my life &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/11/it-should-be-so-easy-to-live-my-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No responsibilities, no work hours, no demands &#8211; or at least demands as you might see them. But it is. That horse I cannot make drink, is this abysmal child in my head. &#8220;What would you miss or fear most?&#8221; I was asked. I thought it meant losing the ability to speak. I had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Heroes Among Us</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/10/everyday-heroes-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are amazing heroes among us. Perhaps you know one or more of them. You may be one yourself. But I’ll bet most people aren’t aware of these heroes – and wouldn’t know about them unless they were involved. I’m talking about Caregivers – men and women who spend their days and nights caring for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but&#8230; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/08/you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother had a way with adages, like this one. Her ending would be &#8220;&#8230; you can&#8217;t make her eat.&#8221; Well, whether eat or drink, my brain has become that horse. For the last 6 months, it&#8217;s like there&#8217;s a Mini-Vicki that has taken control of anything my will wants done. Maxi-me says, &#8216;Tomorrow I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts from a mother on Fathers Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/06/thoughts-from-a-mother-on-fathers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/06/thoughts-from-a-mother-on-fathers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Her blue eyes seemed even bigger, the blue almost a crystal. Her smile was one of peace and joy. Skin as a baby&#8217;s. Hair like a small toddler, feathery, soft. Her hands were clumsy. And as the brain cancer grew more and more we would just sit and look into her eyes. Her beautiful eyes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can lead a horse to water, but&#8230;    Part 1</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/06/you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[you can&#8217;t make him eat,&#8221; my mother would say. Which is true on many levels if you chew on it long enough. Beverly wisdom to live &#038; die for. With this disease I&#8217;m having lots of problems with that darned horse. I either can&#8217;t find it, or if I find it I don&#8217;t remember why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot hot hot</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/06/hot-hot-hot-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot. Steamy, wet hot. Walking through wet wool hot. Hair plastered to head and neck hot. Can&#8217;t breathe, can&#8217;t sleep hot. No matter how you turn your pillow no cool hot. Tossing and turning, getting up I lay at the foot of the bed, closest to the window waiting to catch a wimpy breeze. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo Clinic</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/06/mayo-clinic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting into a medical testing for Frontotemporal Dementia is only the first step. Paying for being in the test is even harder. So far, I&#8217;ve had to cancel appointments 2 times. How long they will keep me on the list is unknown. Mayo Clinic is THE leader in looking for the source of FTD and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Valentines, Happy St. Patricks, Presidents &amp; MLK and many happy birthdays</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/03/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-happy-valentines-happy-st-patricks-presidents-mlk-and-many-happy-birthdays/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/03/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-happy-valentines-happy-st-patricks-presidents-mlk-and-many-happy-birthdays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could say I&#8217;ve been away a long time, and I have. Computer was down during the holidays, and that was great, being with family, my amazing family, then the equally amazing friends who stopped in during that time. ;o) 1/1/11 My children surprised me with a Morkie &#8211; Maltese/Yorkie &#8211; a funny little guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other Voices: A year of loss, lessons and blessings to share&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/01/other-voices-a-year-of-loss-lessons-and-blessings-to-share/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2011/01/other-voices-a-year-of-loss-lessons-and-blessings-to-share/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vicki and I have met many wonderful people &#8211; some online and some in person &#8211; whose lives have been affected by FTD. Some of them share about their lives through writing &#8211; books, blogs, Facebook posts. Earlier this month one of our friends, Michelle Sewell Burdette, shared her memories and thoughts on the 1-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old age, FTD or just plumb unlucky?</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/12/old-age-ftd-or-just-plumb-unlucky/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/12/old-age-ftd-or-just-plumb-unlucky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I just cleaned out my silverware drawer and 2 shelves in my frig. An hour later, my stomach growling, and my body trembling from stooping, etc. As soon as sat down to rest I remembered that I had gone in there to make a sandwich. I grabbed a piece of cheese &#038; some crackers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/12/the-first-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a million things in my head, so much I want to get on paper before I lose the thought forever. So they may be coming out of order, and may have inaccuracies but if you know me, that&#8217;s not new&#8230; It&#8217;s been my usual week: signed the bankruptcy papers, foreclosure getting underway, lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11/30/2010 The good, the bad &amp; the ornery</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/11302010-the-good-the-bad-the-ornery/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/11302010-the-good-the-bad-the-ornery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day was more-or-less OK. A week ago, a dentist read the article that Faith Magazine wrote about me, my illness &#8230; stuff. He called and said he wasn&#8217;t sure what he could do to help, but his specialty was creating &#8216;mouth guards&#8217; (that is not the word, but close) and wondered how my sleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day After Thanksgiving  2010</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/the-day-after-thanksgiving-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve many posts I need to send to the blog, but if I wait too much longer, it will be Christmas. Well, heck. It&#8217;ll be Christmas with or without my permission. It&#8217;s hard to make a list of all the things I am grateful for, and the people I cannot live without. You know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odds &amp; ends 11-5-2010</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/odds-ends-11-5-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder when I die if it will be like those joker candles, where you think they are out and then, one by one, they relight themselves? Would drive the doctors nuts, for sure. I kinda like it, actually &#8230; ;o) &#8220;Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicki&#8217;s the Cover Girl on Faith Magazine</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/vickis-the-cover-girl-on-faith-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/vickis-the-cover-girl-on-faith-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim's Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you can see above and on the right-hand column, Vicki is the &#8220;Cover Girl&#8221; on Faith Magazine&#8217;s November, 2010, issue. The cover story inside the magazine is a great story about Vicki, informative and entertaining. At the end of this post I have a link to the article&#8217;s online version, and to an online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold that elevator!</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/hold-that-elevator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She was a stubborn child, up for a fight with whomever got in her way. Her pout was de rigueur. Her foot stamp was background noise to her life. Of course, she had freckles, and strawberry blonde pigtails. You would be able to recognize her in any family photo. The one with arms crossed, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communion of all my saints</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/11/communion-of-all-my-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Papa, you&#8217;ve given us a beautiful day to remember the saints / Saints who have walked and lived among us. The &#8216;gathering of saints&#8217; brings to mind the many saints who have been influential in my life. I think readers will be surprised that along with St. Rita (impossible dreams), St. Francis &#38; Mother Teresa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottom of the Ninth</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/10/bottom-of-the-ninth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a fidgety guy. When I have to sit down, my feet start tapping and I look forward to when I can stand up and move around. Even when I&#8217;m absorbed by a great play or a film in a theater, I keep changing the positions of my arms and legs. When I give presentations or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My mother said &#8220;there&#8217;ll be days like this&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/10/my-mother-said-therell-be-days-like-this/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/10/my-mother-said-therell-be-days-like-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m struggling thru the disappointment of: - spending money for a terrific cause, the International Association for Frontotemporal Dementia, and then being too ill when there to attend. - of not having the opportunity of meeting my friends from the FTDSupportForum.com, when they were mere yards from me - and knowing in my heart I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 of destructive thoughts planted by my doctors &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/day-3-of-destructive-thoughts-planted-by-my-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/day-3-of-destructive-thoughts-planted-by-my-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WHO has the right, aside from Papa, to tell us how long we have to live?! If not the Republicans nor Democrats, then who? A doctor who skims the notes, flips her hair (but in a perky way) and dismisses all the tests by other Neuro/Psychiatrists as &#8220;nonsense&#8221;? I think not. A Cancer specialist who, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You cannot tell the content from the title</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/you-cannot-tell-the-content-from-the-title/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/you-cannot-tell-the-content-from-the-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They no longer come in and couch their findings from your last trail of tests. They don&#8217;t say we have bad news and good news. They come in, stoicly dressed in professional whites, and flip past the latest tests, recommendations of the other physicians on your team and, with a hair flick, dismiss them with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasons and Life</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/seasons-and-life/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/09/seasons-and-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Other Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Vicki Wells Bedard’s partner with Vicki’s Voice, I usually keep my posts in another section of the site (“Jim’s Blog”), and more often than not those occasional posts are about blogging software and techniques. This week, though, as cooling weather in the Midwest signals the upcoming change in seasons, I’ve been thinking about seasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding another blog to a WordPress site</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/08/adding-another-blog-to-a-wordpress-site/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/08/adding-another-blog-to-a-wordpress-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Coyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jim's Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February I added a &#8220;Jim&#8217;s Blog&#8221; page to Vicki&#8217;s Voice initially to answer some questions people had about setting up a blog. I didn&#8217;t want to interrupt the flow of Vicki&#8217;s story and writing with general computer talk, so I added the separate page. If you read Jim&#8217;s Blog, you&#8217;ll see that my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journal 8-8-2010</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/08/journal-8-8-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/08/journal-8-8-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Sunday. I thought it was Monday. I believed it so much I believed the date/time stamp was messed up on my laptop. So much so that I rebooted my satellite dish, downloaded new programming and it was only when the tech said, laughingly, &#8220;It&#8217;s Sunday, Ms Bedderd. Nothing is broken. Happens to us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from our friend, Bruce Bane</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/news-from-our-friend-bruce-bane/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/news-from-our-friend-bruce-bane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Bane is kind enough to let me share his thoughts from his own blog, Living With Dementia. We have a small group of us with FTD that apparently don&#8217;t know we aren&#8217;t supposed to write or speak, or be creative. Here&#8217;s some beautiful samples of seeing the world through Bruce&#8217;s eyes. Enjoy. Fair Photography [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Larson, Bill Keane??  I could use you again &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/gary-larson-bill-keane-i-could-use-you-again/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/gary-larson-bill-keane-i-could-use-you-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked what it felt like to have an obnoxious disease and no one seeming to do anything about it I took the question to my FTD forum &#8211; especially Susan, John, Elizabeth, Jan and Linda took it and we all batted the idea around and came up with this. An army of guinea pigs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramblings</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/ramblings/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/ramblings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think you believe I hold some amazing gift that tells &#038; leads me thru each day. I don&#8217;t. I have days wrapped like a coccoon. And days I can&#8217;t shut up. But, following my 1 year anniversary of diagnosis, leaving with the advice of &#8220;get hold of hospice and find a home&#8221; &#8230; well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you&#8217;ve had a bad day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/so-youve-had-a-bad-day/</link>
		<comments>http://soncountry.net/voice/2010/07/so-youve-had-a-bad-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vicki Wells Bedard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bad days come in all sizes and shapes, and sometimes you&#8217;ve done something so amazingly bad that even though you are the only one in the world who knows what you just did, your face turns scarlet! Yes, you can embarrass you. It&#8217;s a fact of life. One would think &#8211; being safely withdrawn from [...]]]></description>
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