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I’m having one of those “half-empty” days. Didn’t start out that way. I was excited because Lynn was having his Tram delivered today and I knew he would be happy to have that. The Tram is a device we bought to help him stand and perhaps even walk one day so it’s a “hopeful” device […]
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Yesterday we celebrated Christmas with my side of the family. Several traveled about five hours so that we could be together. We had a wonderful time but it almost didn’t happen. Earlier in the month, I posted a blog about how difficult it was to choose between caring for Lynn and helping out my daughter
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I have never been one to find it easy to say, “no.” I’m a people pleaser, I guess, but I find delight in making others happy and I enjoy helping people. However, I guess for my own sake, and, maybe sometimes even for theirs, I should learn to say ‘no’ but how do you know
I keep thinking about how this is a topic none of us talk about but everyone has to face it at some point so I decided to write about it. Warning, it may seem insensitive to some but in reality, it’s one of the elephants in the room we don’t talk about. If you are
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Actually, it’s my side. I tried a patient lift, but it didn’t work with Lynn’s wheelchair. I know the one that I would like to get–it’s a modified version of what we used in the hospital–but it’s over $3000 because it’s not provided by our insurance company. So I lift Lynn myself. He now weighs 215 lbs.
I’ve always loved to sleep. I don’t nap during the day, but if I had my preference I would go to bed between 10 and 11 p.m. and not get up again till 9:00 a.m. A good night’s sleep for me is 9 hours. During that time I might get up once to go to the bathroom
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