Gail BuckleyWhen I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result “When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.” - Jean-Dominique Bauby Jean-Dominique Bauby...
Gail BuckleyIf I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere“But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on...
Gail BuckleyA very black fly settles on my nose. I waggle my head to unseat him. He digs in...“Sunday. I contemplate my books, piled up on the windowsill to constitute a small library: a rather useless one, for today no one will...
Gail BuckleyI shed a few tears as we passed the corner café where I used to drop in for a bite“I shed a few tears as we passed the corner café where I used to drop in for a bite. I can weep discreetly. People think my eye is...
Gail BuckleyFor half an hour, the machine that regulates my feeding tube has been beeping out into the void“For half an hour, the machine that regulates my feeding tube has been beeping out into the void. I cannot imagine anything so inane or...