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Serious mental illness can remain undetected for years, especially if the ill person has been paired with an enabler. When the enabler leaves the ill [...]
We are so blessed… we had a big day yesterday: I babysat my almost two years old grandson for four hours while his brothers celebrated [...]
My mother in law turns 92 on Monday, and my grandson turns 4. We are going to have a party for both of them next [...]
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Marjorie came to live with us the day after my birthday, March 9, 2011. This time, I cleaned out the room that was my office [...]
While Milford was in the nursing home, life went on at home. It was almost as if we had two homes: our home and the [...]
Milford was a kindly, highly intelligent man before his brain was ravaged by Alzheimer’s. Even in the short time he lived with us, I saw [...]
Weddings are rather like babies being born and people dying. One cannot predict when they will happen. Of course, each may be forced to happen [...]
The cost of the adult day center was reasonable, much less than home care or a nursing home. Most adult day centers charge the same [...]
We do not know what happened to Lawrence’s mother and father’s money. We knew they had inherited an ample amount. But when Lawrence and I [...]
During our bedtime ritual one night the first week that Mom and Dad Gridley lived with us, I noticed that one of Mom Gridley’s legs [...]
I heard noise in the kitchen early the next morning. I found Milford in there trying to make coffee, but instead he had just made [...]