“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” – Unknown I was having a tough morning, waking up with the realization that my beloved Kip is gone. No more perky head popping up to greet me when my feet roll […]
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“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Roy Croft David […]
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Posted in Caregiver Thoughts on Oct 12th, 2010
“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Author Unknown Standing vigil. As the end became near and imminent – the realization of what was happening was beyond words. Everything that had led up to where we were in the dying process, all the fight, all the efforts, all the […]
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Posted in Caregiver Thoughts on Oct 11th, 2010
“Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.” – Author Unknown Thirty years later, my mother would die of cancer. It was not sudden, it was a process. Death and dying are two distinctly different experiences. After she had “survived” breast cancer, melanoma, thymoma, and […]
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Posted in Caregiver Thoughts on Oct 10th, 2010
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. “ ~From a headstone in Ireland It seems lately, that many folks I know and care for are dying or have died, from one form of cancer or another. It has a bit of a piling on feeling at […]
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“There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Finally! I’m home at last! I got in around midnight last night from Miami via Minneapolis/St Paul. A long day of traveling to be sure. My phone went on the fritz part way through my trip and then with all the traveling […]
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