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Chapter 19: The Writing is on the Wall
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Could I possibly be misremembering that tick bite? Perhaps a rogue mosquito or some...


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Cure Thyself
When I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006, I expected challenges. Uncertainty. Gradually-improving-but-not-fast-enough...


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Chapter 18: Taking a Stand
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield My head began to spin. That icky sense of nausea started to burble up. If I had had a...

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Chapter 17: Ipso Facto
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I am familiar with epic fails. (Even though she is in the other room, I can see my...


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Chapter 16: Never Ever
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Never ever. There aren’t enough evers. Not in a million years. Ice ages could come and...


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Chapter 15: Jenga
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Theoretically, all doctors have taken the Hippocratic Oath. If you’ve never actually...


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Chapter 14: A Nobel Act
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Uncanny, I know. You almost cannot tell the difference between me and Alfred Nobel,...


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Chapter 13: Joyrified
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield In third grade I won the lottery. Well, sort of. It wasn’t for cash or anything (thank...


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Chapter 12: Roll of the Die
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Tragically, because a diagnosis of MS is so fuzzy, misdiagnoses happen. A lot. A...


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Chapter 11: Crazy Not Crazy
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Lyme disease holds a unique place in the lexicon of people who are just getting...


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Chapter 10: Zebra Found
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield “C’mon, we have time, we can be quick!” I wanted to maximize the fleeting remaining...


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Part II: Introduction
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield “I don’t have MS. I have Lyme disease.” After uttering those words, I could not have...


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Chapter 9: Fate, Meet Destiny
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield One paragraph. Really, just one sentence. There was one sentence in my Hail Mary...


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Chapter 8: Checkmate
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield This might sound like a public service announcement from Captain Obvious, but trust me...


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Chapter 7: Final Hail Mary
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield My UTIs weren’t stopping. My frenzied urgency to urinate wasn’t abating. My bladder...


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Chapter 6: Breaking Brain
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield This indispensable part of the story begins in 2018, 5,322 miles away from our home in...


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From the Ashes: The Movie
Determined to find a way through the defining challenge of her 28-year marriage, a fiercely proactive wife comes up with an unlikely...


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Chapter 5: Pit of Despair
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Nearly 30 years ago, when Laura and I were traveling around the world on our honeymoon...


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Chapter 4: The Widow Maker
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield At about 10:15 the evening of September 25, 2005, I went to the bathroom mirror and...


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Chapter 3: Operation Overturn
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield My reserved stem cells were thawing on a counter next to my hospital bed, about to be...


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Chapter 2: 100 Meters
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield If I was going to have a chance to avoid entering a nursing home in my early 40s, all...
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