by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 23, 2020 | Serendipity
Snapshots of Self-Differentiation Pepe peered outside through the curtains onto the streets of Luarca, a fishing town in Spain. He was four years old. The year was 1918. In 2018, Pepe (Jose Ameal) was believed to be the oldest survivor of what later became known as...
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 14, 2020 | Serendipity
Snapshots of Self-Differentiation Some of the most poignant lessons I have learned seemed to occur on my Meals on Wheels route in Abilene, Texas twenty years ago. For almost a year, the route had remained relatively unchanged. Same people, same faces, same routine....
by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 6, 2020 | Serendipity
Snapshots of Self-Differentiation We caught a mere 10-second glimpse of his life. But it left us rejuvenated by his display of beautiful, uninhibited freedom. Around 10am, we were enjoying the Paseo Arts Festival in OKC a few years ago. As my son and I made our way to...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 28, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #3 Midge and John are two of the most resilient people I know. John has been living with Parkinson’s disease for over twenty years. He has done Deep Brain Stimulation, all kinds of meds, and he keeps going…and well at that. John has...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 21, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #2 Limping and waddling his way toward me, his cheek-to-cheek smile greets me long before his aching body arrives. Wayne is one of my heroes. Disease and life experience have sabotaged his health, but he continues to expose his jumbled...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 14, 2020 | Resilience
Profiles in Resilience #1 Service to others. This is the life they have known and lived. He worked for 33 years as a public official. For more than a decade, he continued to work through the inconveniences of Parkinson’s disease. Always quick with a joke or a...
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 | Jan 24, 2020 | Resilience
Change for Good #3 If you sense that you are overwhelmed, then this word is for you: simplify. Caregiving scenarios, corporate work mazes, financial burden…these and many other situations are rife with complexity. In the midst of so many steps and options and...
