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So This is How it Goes

August 13, 2017by champslikeus Leave a comment

She doesn’t remember me when I come to visit after she arrived home from the hospital. She calls me to fix her computer. Interestingly, I follow another woman into her […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

These Days Will Come

June 19, 2014by champslikeus Leave a comment

It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half.  Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]

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The Man Who Was Ahi

December 6, 2012by champslikeus 4 Comments

Denver, CO — I had no idea how the stroke survivor group would turn out.  Every week is different.  One time I asked what was new in the last week […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

We’re Number Three

October 20, 2012by champslikeus 4 Comments

Seattle, WA — I tried my hardest to fit in at the overcrowded conference on traumatic brain injury.  I checked in and headed over to help myself to breakfast, picking my […]

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Notes from a Part-Time Social Worker

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