by Susan | Nov 14, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical, Relationships
I hate holidays! A friend posted this on FaceBook last week. I understand all the reasons that holidays can be stressful. We make them that way. There are tensions in families. We think everything must be perfect. And there is never enough time to get things done the...
by Susan | Oct 31, 2018 | Caregiving, EGC, Gestalt, Medical, Relationships
In January of 2013, I was dragged into a role that I never expected. Today I talked with a woman who was researching an article about how living with chronic pain affects a relationship. I had asked her if she was interested in someone who had lived with someone in...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2018 | Caregiving, Relationships
This post has been edited because I had the wrong units of tomatoes from the recipe. That’s what I get for trying to write from memory when I could have double checked the recipe. Last week I was inspired to post the following on FaceBook after changing the...
by Susan | Aug 15, 2018 | Caregiving, Horses, Relationships
I think of Mike at the strangest times. Over the weekend I was going through some receipts and I came across some of his from the pharmacy. Strangely enough, this made me nostalgic. I seem to be going about my life in a normal progression and then I see, hear, or...
by Susan | Jul 11, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical, Relationships
I don’t even know where to start this week. Wednesday, June 27 I was celebrating finishing chemo complete with a glass of champagne. Now I’m grieving the loss of my husband. It started on Tuesday, June 26. I took him to the Emergency Room in Colby because of severe...
by Susan | May 9, 2018 | Caregiving, Medical
Sometimes the Universe has a way of slapping you in the face to wake you up. That happened to me in the last week. On Thursday (May 3) we celebrated our 32nd Anniversary. I know, hard to believe that someone as young as me could be married 32 years. It was a normal...
