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When My Wife Developed Alzheimer’s, the Story of Our Marriage Kept Us Connected

When My Wife Developed Alzheimer’s, the Story of Our Marriage Kept Us Connected

by External Article | Dec 23, 2021 | Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Meaning, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

In December 2012, at age sixty-one, Judy received a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s. The news was deeply distressing, igniting within me a burning anxiety over how I, a wheelchair user born with a spinal cord malformation and living with bunches of body parts...
Saying I Do, And Saying Farewell

Saying I Do, And Saying Farewell

by External Article | Nov 11, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X, Grief | 0 comments

In 2010, after two years together as a couple, during which we almost broke up once, we learned that the headaches and blurry vision he’d been experiencing were the result of a terminal brain tumor. Neither of us could believe it. Why would a healthy, physically...

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