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An Unexpected Gift

Since the weather is supposed to be awful beginning this evening and lasting through the weekend, I made a point of getting over to the nursing home. Mom, as always, was seated in her wheelchair with a...

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Standing In Place While The World Swims By

My mother weighs less than 80 pounds. Jesus. The first thing the nurse said to me at last week’s Patient Care Conference was that she doesn’t know what’s keeping Mom alive. She barely eats–except when...

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Ka-BLOOEY!

Being a caretaker is a little like being one of those moving targets  in a sideshow arcade. You’re in motion, you keep dancing, you think “If I can just keep all these plates in the air, everything...

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Too Tired To Come Up With A Title

Got talking with the other members of my support group. The general consensus is that caretaking is lonely business. Despite assurances from family, they often aren’t available. Some of their excuses...

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So It Begins

As of yesterday, Mom has begun her “transition” to death. Please keep her in your prayers.

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And Just Like That …

… she’s gone. Ginny Limbacher1923-2015

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Mom Has The Last Word

Bit of backstory – yesterday was my mom’s funeral. Afterward, we gathered at the home of my niece Michelle.  This morning, I rec’d this message from Nichole, who is married to my nephew Josh...

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Riding the Wave

Hello, everyone. I thought I’d touch base,say hi, see how you’re all doing. Yesterday was the three-month anniversary of Mom’s death. Grief is like the ocean, rising and falling, and the one grieving...

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Paying It Forward

Just when I think this blog is over, something comes up that I feel I ought to include just in case. Yesterday, I drove to the nursing home where Mom died and donated her shower chair, walker, and the...

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Hello?

Funny. I never thought I’d be back on these pages. What’s done is done and what’s gone is gone, do-dah, do-dah. But things happen. See, I thought Alzheimer’s was done with me–or me with it–once Mom...

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