My Journey Through The Wilderness
I will- No, I choose to: Be happy Honor this life I’ve been blessed with Guard my heart Love Share my journey back from the abyss Remember my Love and the lessons he taught me Summon my Strength even when I feel weak Rejoice Practice Gratitude, Kindness, and choose Abundance. These are choices that I…
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” — Napoleon Bonaparte When my Love became ill, I became strong. I researched treatments, became an ‘expert’ on chronic kidney disease, arteriosclerosis, dialysis machines, home treatment, peritonitis, mixed antibiotics at home, calciphylaxis, dietary restrictions, pain medications, alternative…
I don’t know where else to start but at the beginning My Love and I met in October 2005. Online. He happened upon my profile, started up a conversation, and proceeded to rock my world. He was a renaissance man with a conservative streak and Jewish. I was bald, and Christian. One day I decided…
My Love adored our grandchildren. One of his last wishes was that they never forget him. While I don’t believe anyone will let that happen, I wanted something concrete to give each of them for the holidays that would be a reminder of Grandpa. Thanks to a connection through my sister-by-choice Wendi, Bridgette at The…
I am an Ambivert Meaning, I display both introverted and extroverted personality characteristics. I sit back, observe, see where I may or may not fit it, and then decide if I am going to act – or not. Some people may see this as stand-offish. It really isn’t. I get to know people first which…
I am grateful that my Love was under the care of wonderful Hospice/Palliative Medicine (HPM) Physicians during the last six months of his life. I wanted to publicly thank them on this platform for some time but until today couldn’t find the words. My Love resisted HPM. Only after much discussion (read arm-twisting or strong…
When I wrote Are You Courageous one week ago, I talked about a Paradigm Shift as one of my Action Plans for 2020. Perhaps it was the flu bug and the ensuing high fevers, or the realizations that came to me while lying in bed alone, but something shifted in my brain over the last…
