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Is this what acceptance feels like?

Is this what acceptance feels like?

by Guest Author | Jul 8, 2018 | After Caregiving, Grief | 16 comments

This morning I was drinking my coffee and I realized I felt…normal. It’s been weeks since I’ve broken down sobbing. Since some little thing reminded me of him and broke me inside. Since I felt the darkness of grief so deeply that I couldn’t...
Where Grief Takes Us: A Caregiver’s Journey Living with Loss

Where Grief Takes Us: A Caregiver’s Journey Living with Loss

by Guest Author | Oct 19, 2016 | Caregiver Stories, Death & Dying, Grief | 6 comments

Somehow I knew I had to walk through that grief. I couldn’t work it away, or ignore it, or pretend it wasn’t there.

Mortality, Loss, and Finding Peace

Mortality, Loss, and Finding Peace

by Ashley Look | Aug 25, 2016 | Caregiver Stories | 0 comments

Dealing with the loss of a loved one is emotional torture.  It can be wretched.  Almost violent in its disruption especially when loss comes as a surprise.  Death can be insufferable for those who are left behind and therefore mortality as a topic is generally...
Grief: loneliness, some things aren’t meant to be

Grief: loneliness, some things aren’t meant to be

by Bob Harrison | Apr 28, 2016 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Grief, Long Term Caregiving | 21 comments

Five years post Annie’s death, I still can’t accept what I know I must. The loneliness just hangs around me like a fog. Although the darkness has subsided,  I feel like I’ve been wandering in overcast skies now, for what seems like an eternity.  And...
Grief or relief, what is it?

Grief or relief, what is it?

by Carol Bradley Bursack | Mar 2, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Caregiver Burnout, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Grief, Long Term Caregiving | 15 comments

“Carol, I’m so sorry about your dad,” people told me after he died. “I’m sure you miss him.” They were right. I missed him terribly. But, my dad had, effectively, died on an operating table ten years before. The man we just buried was my dad, yet not really. The pain...
Headaches? It might be caregiver burnout

Headaches? It might be caregiver burnout

by Guest Author | Feb 18, 2015 | Caregiver Burnout, Caregiving 101 | 1 comment

Headaches & facial pain caused by emotional distress Case Study: Joan* Joan was referred to my office due to her daily headaches and facial pain that had continued to get worse despite taking over-the-counter medication on a daily basis and treating herself to a...
Managing caregiver’s guilt

Managing caregiver’s guilt

by Kristen Sachs | Feb 10, 2015 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Grief | 2 comments

February 13, 2014. The day I became a caregiver. That was the day Jeff came home following nearly seven months spent in three hospitals after his spinal cord injury. Of course I had been preparing for my role of caregiver for months. The nurses, therapists, and staff...

Caregiving addiction: It’s more real than you might think!

by Bob Harrison | Dec 24, 2014 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Grief, Long Term Caregiving | 0 comments

On November 2nd, 2010, I lost my wife Annie to a blood cancer. As Annie’s caregiver for thirty months, we were always looking over our shoulders, dealing with a prognosis that was exceeded within the first three weeks of her diagnosis. So I was always dealing...

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...
Thanksgiving moments: Coming of age in unsteady times

Thanksgiving moments: Coming of age in unsteady times

by Sara Franklin | Nov 27, 2014 | Nutrition and Healthy Eating | 0 comments

Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Most years when I was a kid, we packed up the station wagon and drove north to central Maine, where my dad’s cousin and her family lived in a rambling farmhouse surrounded by wooded acres and winding roads. The...
My mom. She lived. She died. She’s here.

My mom. She lived. She died. She’s here.

by Alx Block | Nov 24, 2014 | Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Grief | 8 comments

I’m not good with talking about my emotions publicly, openly, and without hesitation. I’m not good at feeling angry or upset or confused. I’m not good at knowing that my life is changed forever. What I am good at, though, is realizing that just because my life is...

Caregiver Stories: Sarah LaFave of Lori’s Hands

by Guest Author | Oct 13, 2014 | Caregiver Stories, Grief, Outside Resources | 0 comments

Sarah LaFave writes about the love and care she and her mother exchanged when their family had to deal with breast cancer … when Sarah and her brother, Brett, were still children.

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