Journey in Review, Post 18: The End of an Era

Journey in Review, Post 18: The End of an Era

A Journey in Review, Post 17: Keeping Pieces

A Journey in Review, Post 17: Keeping Pieces

Find ways to capture the moments. Keeping pieces for later helps heal the lacerations on the heart.

A Journey in Review, Post 16: Bigger Chunks

A Journey in Review, Post 16: Bigger Chunks

I wish we had taken inventory of the losses, but in the middle of losing so many things, none of us thought about that until bigger chunks began falling away.

A Journey in Review, Post 15: Caregiver Care

A Journey in Review, Post 15: Caregiver Care

It’s good to give the primary caregiver care: a break, an empathetic ear, and acknowledgement that this is hard.

A Journey in Review, Post 14: Not the Same

A Journey in Review, Post 14: Not the Same

… these difficult days do pass, and you might return to something similar to your old routine, but never to the “old” normal. The disease changes all of us, and on the other side it, we’re not the same.

A Journey in Review, Post 13: Isolation

A Journey in Review, Post 13: Isolation

How much longer would she have had? At least long enough to enjoy a few more ice cream bars, walks through the field, and idle chatter about little nothings that would become everything after she was gone.