Witnessing Alzheimer's:A Caregiver's Journey
Blog URL http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/witnessingalzheimers/
Located Seattle, Washington USA
Tags health, caregiving, spousal caregiving, writing and illness, diaries, mental health, spirituality, poetry and caregiving
When my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2003, I began keeping a diary on the Alzheimer’s Caregiver. Abe is now in a nursing home but writing continues to help me cope with the on-going stress of AD.
Latest Blog Posts
- Happy Thanksgiving on Nov 20, 2009
The six weeks of absence here has been good for me. I've stopped crying. I'm back at work on research I started years ago. I'm reading poetry and writing some. I'm going out, and not just to the nursing home. There I visit twice a week. One day more...
- Goodbye for now on Oct 5, 2009
It's almost one year since I started writing here. My first entry was November 28, 2008, Thanksgiving Day. All together, I've posted 126 entries. I had planned to continue until Abe breathed his last breath, and then some. But it's time for me to mov...
- Complicated Grief on Sep 30, 2009
Since Alzheimer's is, as has often been said, the long dying, AD researchers, families and support group leaders will appreciate Fran Schumer's article on Complicated Grief theory in today's New York Times.
- Cupcakes for Baily on Sep 29, 2009
Alzheimer's is a great insulator. How often it protects us from the world beyond the nursing home, helping us to forget that other people have problems too. Thanks to Dr. Lisa Todd for reminding us that her four-year-old nephew, Baily, needs our help...
- Sept. 21 is World Alzheimer's Day on Sep 21, 2009
I don't like the language World Alzheimer's Day. What does it mean, World Alzheimer's Day? Let's all go out and get Alzheimer's? Or maybe it means today's a Take-an-Alzheimer-patient-to-work day? Or We're all going to do hands-on work with an Alzheim...
- Dear Reader on Sep 19, 2009
May you have a sweet and peaceful year.
- Poem In the Time of Elul on Sep 14, 2009
by Cole Krawitz...
