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Chapter 37: Telltale Shards
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The 39-year-old New York lawyer, standing 6’2” with an unmistakable level of authority...


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Chapter 36: Home Runs
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I remember clearly the last time that I played catch with Dad. It was the summer of...


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Chapter 36: Author's Note
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The readers of Sit Down Before Reading—a real-time medical memoir about tragic...


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Chapter 35: Red Flags
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I gripped the steering wheel tighter as I felt my pulse tick higher. Arm circles...


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Chapter 34: A Perfect Storm
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield There are good “perfect storms” and there are bad perfect storms. In 1993 as Laura and...


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Chapter 33: Swirling Winds
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Guinevere was especially proud of her apple orchard. For it grew perfect apples, each...


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Chapter 32: Gathering Clouds
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I stared at the gaudy numbers in disbelief. Those couldn’t be right, but they had to...


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Chapter 31: Math
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I’m a writer. I’ve always been a writer. I wrote a play in elementary school about an...


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Chapter 30: Denial of Care
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Laura buried her head between her knees to keep from throwing up. We were already an...


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Chapter 29: Fail Better
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield No matter how much I wish it, the evening of January 26, 2002, will never fully fade....
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Chapter 28: Hidden in Plain Sight
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Laura and I thought we had properly prepared ourselves for our doctor’s...


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Chapter 27: Fathomable
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield When I was in fourth and fifth grade, I always left my window shade up a notch when I...


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Chapter 26: The Moronic Wars
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The raised eyebrows, the disbelieving shaking of heads, the overly dramatic eye rolls....


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Chapter 25: The Response
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield When I heard the news, I don’t remember ever crying that hard. Not over the phone,...


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Chapter 24: The Terminator
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Patients put loads of trust in doctors, mound it even higher when it comes to...


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Chapter 23: Textbook
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Trying to counteract the anxiety that is now surging, I try to self soothe, tell...


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Part III: Introduction
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Inconceivable. Grasp that concept. It’s the only way to prepare yourself for what you...


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Author's Note
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield October 23, 2022, marks one year since I made the life-altering discovery that I have...


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Chapter 22: Iceberg Right Ahead
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Sometime in the early 2000s, maybe 2004, flawed science ruined one of my life’s...


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Chapter 21: An Improbable Proposal
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield “Why, Dave?” That’s a fair question. After all, Laura and I are beyond fortunate to...


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Chapter 20: Clear Eyes, Full Heart
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Stopping antibiotics when you have a stubborn case of Lyme disease might seem...
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