A Family's Journey Through Dementia
A Trip We Didn't See Coming and Didn't Want to Take, But Here We Are….
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Mother Nature dropped by to tell me that just wasn’t so…. I THINK MOTHER Nature has stepped in to help me adjust to all the changes going on since Connie passed Continue Reading →
SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS as time goes by.. Grief is tiring and it is up and down. I have had a busy two weeks since Connie passed, what with arranging estate stuff for Continue Reading →
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THE DEMENTIA JOURNEY has ended, in a physical sense, but in a literal sense I don’t know that it ever will. It will stay with me in my mind. It may fade Continue Reading →
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“MAYBE THREE days,” the hospice nurse said. Connie’s vitals have started to drop and her breathing is changing. She has not eaten anything for three days and in the days before Continue Reading →
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LINGERING: To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually. It is a word I have come to hate as I sit by Connie’s bed Continue Reading →
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Our hospice nurses have told us Connie is transitioning and the end most likely is near and good-byes are so, so hard DO YOU WANT to stay, I asked Connie last Continue Reading →
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For caregivers the waiting for what you know is coming, while not wanting it to come, can drain the life from you WAITING FOR someone to die is so damned exhausting. Continue Reading →
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There is a difference between your in-hospital “do not resuscitate” order and the one in your general Advanced Directive THE OTHER DAY I wrote about a lot of end-of-life things you Continue Reading →
When you create an advanced directive the conversations that lead to it can be just as important as what is in the document. Take time to talk! I FILLED OUT an Continue Reading →
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I spent some time recently putting together everything my children will need to know to wrap things up when I am gone. Something for everyone to think about… CALLING HOSPICE for Continue Reading →