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July 23, 2008 03:53 PM EDT
(featured date: July 28, 2008)
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More than half of Americans would rather die than live with a severe disability, according to a recent nationwide study by Disaboom (OTCBB: DSBO; www.disaboom.com ), the premier online community for . . .
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July 17, 2008 08:43 PM EDT
(featured date: July 17, 2008)
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I saw this article today and wanted to share it with you. There isn't anything original about this. I didn't write it. So I can't really take credit for this.
Top 10 Depression Myths . . .
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June 20, 2008 11:00 AM EDT
(featured date: June 20, 2008)
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Waiting for Winter
A story written for myself late last August, about my mother, in the final months of her Ahlzeimer's disease--a ten year "health sentence." She . . .
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December 27, 2007 11:56 PM EST
(featured date: December 28, 2007)
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It isn't really any different now, I live far enough above that it was always quiet.
The thing is, now... the house is empty, the lights downstairs all out.
So much effort, for so long,... . . .
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September 02, 2007 01:40 PM EDT
(featured date: September 05, 2007)
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In the essence of my world, this story is worth telling. For those of you who read just about anything I write, you know that my writing is a coping mechanism for some of the things that are surfacing . . .
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August 10, 2007 06:46 PM EDT
(featured date: August 12, 2007)
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One of the kids that I worked with at camp (a very long time ago) that sticks out in my memory - now that I am making a decided effort, anyway - is Joey.
He was such a great kid - deserved so much better . . .
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December 03, 2006 08:12 PM EST
(featured date: December 05, 2006)
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The only circumstance under which I will not spend Danish Christmas with my Morfar will be if he dies before Christmas eve.
Today I entertained the possibility that he would not be able to spend Christmas . . .
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December 02, 2006 10:50 AM EST
(featured date: December 04, 2006)
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It occurred to me today that I hadn't posted anything about Mom's continuing struggle and decline in awhile. For those not aware, on July 1st 2005, at the actual moment of her brothers passing in a central . . .
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November 26, 2006 05:01 PM EST
(featured date: November 27, 2006)
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I am typing with one hand, and I have the other hand on my phone ready to call Turkish Airlines and book myself a one-way ticket to Istambul!!
Morfar (Danish for Mom's Dad) went into the hospital . . .
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July 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT
(featured date: July 23, 2006)
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Many years ago, as I pushed my baby in her pram I fell to thinking that there must be more to life. Emma was one of those babies who tranquilly slept and didn't need my full attention every waking . . .
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July 11, 2006 11:45 AM EDT
(featured date: July 11, 2006)
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A dear friend lost her mother to old age, Alzheimer's, and time this last week. She's having a pretty rough time, letting go and moving on, even though she's been going through this for the last couple . . .
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May 31, 2006 05:03 AM EDT
(featured date: June 01, 2006)
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When I needed help,
Finding the courage to ask
Helped beyond measure.
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May 22, 2006 10:16 AM EDT
(featured date: May 28, 2006)
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Every now and then social workers get to do some good. Here's Mary's story.
She wheeled herself into my office.
"Are you the new Social Worker?"
"Yes Ma'mam, what . . .
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May 26, 2006 04:42 PM EDT
(featured date: May 28, 2006)
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Getting back writing skills after a brain injury will only happen if you practice writing. This can be done with a simple spiral notebook, journal book or the online equivalent. You need to . . .
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April 07, 2006 09:48 PM EDT
(featured date: April 20, 2006)
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A posting to answer a question asked by a reader of one of my journals as to how to relate to a family who has an ill person in it. http://journals.aol.com/yeolecontractor/SpencersPlace/entries/1492
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April 13, 2006 08:49 PM EDT
(featured date: April 20, 2006)
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How can she explain
She means on earth when she says
"Don't want to be here"?
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April 18, 2006 07:24 PM EDT
(featured date: April 20, 2006)
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I've been away for a few days, visiting my daughter and granddaughter. They live not far from Stonehenge in a tiny cottage with a stream running by one side of a triangular shaped garden. . . .
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CAREgivers
Location: Youngstown, FL
Created: Mar 14, 2006
A place for those of us who are caregivers to loved ones to meet, chat, and try to understand this thing we have become, a caretaker.
CAREgivers has 81 members.
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