Fast-growing tumors, slow-growing tumors, fatty tumors, cancerous tumors, tumors to remove, tumors to watch, tumors to ignore. At this point, he is a dog held together by tumors. That might be part of why it is so hard for me to accept that he is really dying. It feels like he...
and food, keeping her children safe, looking after her dad who is deteriorating with dementia, finding where her husband has been detained, meanwhile everything around her is falling apart. Her sister, in Canada, wants her to leave and sends resources, but she can’t leave while...
God forbid, I’m really talking about the worst case scenario, but let’s just say your wife is deteriorating again, and they want to start talking about end of life again, and they say, “Look, we should be withdrawing
child or grandparent who has a disability or is suffering from a disease or has cancer, I hope that you would let them know how much they mean to your life and let them know how they’ve made a difference in your life. Those few words of encouragement would mean so much to them and...
Pete, a fellow grieving dad from the support group, shares with Phil a recurring dream he has of meeting the man whose reckless hit and run driving killed his daughter. Again, in his altered stated, which is to say not in his right mind, Phil manages to get the culprit’s address and...
I know Terri will love this…after much begging, I convinced her to take 1 plant and now she has a little jungle herself. It truly is addictive. I never realized I had a green thumb…I thought it was a bad thumb because I used to kill plants I’d get. But lo and behold, I hav...
I had been to a Teen Discovery before where I was closed down until the last couple hours because my dad had just died. So this camp was the starting point for me to get open about that and other things. The day I heard about the camp, not a thought ever crossed my mind that I ...
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The public struggles of the first hundred days didnt occur in a vacuum; at the same time, my family was adjusting to a dramatic change in our way of life and dealing with the loss of Hillarys dad. I loved being President and Hillary was deeply committed to her health-care work. Chelsea...