To any friends and neighbors who have questioned the need for social distancing, and for everyone who has wondered if things are "really as bad as the media portrays" in the hospitals as a result of COVID-19....BELIEVE IT. I have now lived through it with my 93.5 year old father. The Situation In Our Local …
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Small Expectations
Visiting my Mom at her Memory Care Home requires advance planning to maximize the potential for a good, meaningful visit. This involves calculating the best time of day to arrive, taking into account the sequence of care activities for daily living. It also requires anticipating the time for the start of the parade of wheelchairs, …
Happy New Year, Mom
"Are you going to visit your Mum today?" my fiance asked. Usually it is a question easily answered, although the reason for the answer is not always simple. Today the answer is "no...it is just too hard". Today is New Year's Eve, 2017. Another chapter in my life and the life of everyone else closes and …
Cary to Calcutta 