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Moving Forward After Caregiving Ends

by Harriet Hodgson | Dec 7, 2020 | Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Meaning, Grief, Long Term Caregiving | 3 comments

In November of 2020, my beloved husband died. His death brought 23 years of caregiving to an end. I cared for three generations of family members, my mother, who had vascular dementia, my twin grandchildren, whose parents died from the injuries they received in...

Laughing Until You Die

by Kaiser Health News | Apr 8, 2017 | Finding Meaning | 7 comments

Humor May Be Antidote For Pain Of Death For Patients, Survivors Just weeks before Christmas some years ago, Shirley Rapp and her family faced the devastating news that she had what appeared to be a terminal illness. But that didn’t stop Rapp from wanting to do one...

Grief and loneliness, precious dreams

by Bob Harrison | Jan 25, 2017 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Grief, Long Term Caregiving | 3 comments

When we lose a loved one, what is it we want most. In my cases, I kept saying over and over, “I want her back,” “I just want her back!” Well, unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. As I found, as did many before me, death is so final....

Coping With Grief During the Holidays

by Iris Waichler | Dec 26, 2016 | Caregiving 101, Grief | 0 comments

Holidays are often considered a time for celebrating. We honor traditions and reminisce about past holidays and the people we shared them with. The very thing we love about holidays can be the source of pain and renewed grief if someone we love is no longer with us...

Grief & Loneliness: Rescued by a Feral Cat

by Bob Harrison | Aug 28, 2016 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving | 1 comment

June 9th, 2012, while sitting on the steps outside my back door, having what many folks would call a pity party over the loss of my wife Annie, two years previously, I discovered a little treasure in the rough. When you’re alone, grieving, lonely, it’s...

A young adult and their sick parent

by Tiffany | Jan 29, 2015 | Caregiver Stories | 2 comments

I wanted to write this blog about young adults witnessing their parent sick for many reasons that were close to me. One of them is that I, too, have been a sole witness of seeing someone in my family being sick. And it has not been some temporary inconvenience, but...