Are You a Good Neighbor?
We live in a society that fosters independence and fear of becoming involved. We’ve all seen on the news where sometimes a good Samaritan finds themselves blamed for their involvement. So we shy away from
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The Value of Resilience
How often during your struggles with medical mayhem have you wanted to just give up? How often did you say the words “I’m done! I can’t do it anymore!” And when we do manage to
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Transformation Self-Care
If you have ever been a caregiver or currently are a caregiver you have heard the words “You need to take care of yourself”. But actually caring for yourself while caring for those in medical
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What Year are You?
I am driving a 1955 vehicle. Gosh, in 1955 she was a beaut! Shiny, new, pristine – not a blemish on her. Ran without a hiccup and seemed to get better as it ran –
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Family History Can Forecast the Future
“At the Lord’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages”. Numbers 33:2 Family history can tell a lot about us. Not only can it explain our neuroses, it
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Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout – Part Two
In the first part of Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout we talked about recognizing the symptoms of caregiver burnout. In Part Two we will talk about the steps we can take to reduce caregiver stress. A
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Guarding Against Caregiver Burnout – Part One
How’s you balance? I’m not talking about walking on a balance beam. Rather, how do you balance the myriad of things to do in the array of areas that make up your life? I don’t
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Leaning on God – Medicine for the Soul – 3rd in a series of 3
Faith believes when common sense tells you not to. Mixed with attitude which is the ability to see and maintain the positive amidst the medical mayhem; they infuse your world with the courage and strength
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Ten Things to Start the New Year Right
With a new year comes an urge to purge the old and I have started cleaning out closets and reorganizing. I find this cathartic and makes me feel like I am in control of at
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The Best Gift to Give
Trying to think of what to give someone you love on Valentine’s Day? A box of chocolates? No too fattening. Dinner out? After the Christmas we ate our way through? No, that won’t do. Lets
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The Domino Effect
I felt awful. No energy, short of breath but the worse was intermittently feeling faint – almost like someone was playing with a light switch. On-off, on-off: feeling fine then seconds of not feeling fine,
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A Dog with a Bone
Some time ago I wrote about my C-Pap machine informing me “my motor had outlived its life expectancy”. I wasn’t sure if it was talking about me or the machine. To be fair it was
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