by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 10, 2020 | Caregiving
Behind the Scenes of Caregiving #2 When you spend time in the desert, you savor every drop of water. The experience of caregiving offers no lack of hardship, disillusionment, and grief. Yet, beautiful gestures, hilarious incidents, and pride generating accomplishments...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 3, 2020 | Caregiving
Behind the Scenes of Caregiving #1 My wife has lived with Dermatomyositis for the past 16 years. Beautifully and graciously, with tenacity and grit, she refuses to let her disease define her. But to be honest, over this time, we have learned a lot about things we...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 8, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #3 The list of potential self-care measures is seemingly endless. So much so, that you may be overwhelmed or think you have to do too much. You don’t. Remember, a little bit of something is better than a whole lot of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 31, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #2 “I am losing my hair, and I have a terrible rash. I have developed a hump on my back, I have gained 40 pounds, I can’t sleep, and I don’t even know who I am when I look in the mirror. I don’t look like myself and I don’t...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 24, 2020 | Caregiving
Good Habits for Caregivers & Patients #1 When illness visits and you don’t feel good, interactions change. When you enter the terrain of long term, chronic conditions, you don’t feel like yourself for a long time. Some of us manage with grace; some of...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jul 17, 2019 | Caregiving
Unlikely moments of hope #1 He knew the truth. So did she. They both heard what the doctor said. They had both read the reports and the prognosis. The cancer was back. Wide spread. And their time was short. Too short. Sitting there together, the life had been sucked...
