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We Needed More Significant Others

We Needed More Significant Others

by External Article | Jan 8, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Caregiver Support, Millennial Generation | 0 comments

After multiple biopsies over many weeks (Scott said he felt as if he were an Ikea desk being drilled into), his doctor called to deliver the diagnosis. We pulled off the highway and put her on speakerphone. It was osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that afflicts...
Always expect the unexpected

Always expect the unexpected

by Bob Harrison | Jan 19, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving | 2 comments

The following excerpt from Because of Annie is particularly important in that it shows a caregiver’s life in motion fighting battles that he knows very little about. Learning to make decisions in a split second and living with the consequences is part of a...

Do I look like I’m dying? A caregiver and the cancer trap

by Bob Harrison | Dec 15, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving | 2 comments

In the summer of 2007, my wife Annie started suffering from fatigue and pain in her legs. In the evenings before we went to bed, I would sit on one end of our couch and she would lay down with her head at the opposite end stretching her legs out so I could massage...

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