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...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jun 28, 2019 | Caregiving
Finding Your Way Through Resistance She just couldn’t seem to make the call. She knew she needed to. But, resistance seemed to paralyze her with fears and doubts. Her mother has Parkinson’s disease and was in a tailspin after an unexpected trip to the...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 29, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care As you lean into your unique situation, remember, there is grace for you! If no one else has ever extended it, or if you have a supremely difficult time believing it, allow me to extend some grace to you: You are forgiven. Today is a new...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 26, 2019 | Caregiving
8 Words for Those Who Care She keeps going. Her voice is soft. Her attempts at annunciation tend to leave her words slurred together due to the effects of Parkinson’s disease. She walks slowly, precariously on the verge of a fall at any moment. The disease has...
