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ROFL at Dementia…or Die Crying
My mom ended up with dementia as a result of radiation for brain cancer. She had the tumor surgically removed, but they wanted to zap the surrounding area a bit to make sure they nuked everything that...
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Mom’s Final Days…Please Excuse Me While I Bawl My Eyes Out
This is still rough. And yes, it’s long. Mom had been through so much, and survived. She had been through breast cancer, pre-cancerous tumors in the other breast (so bilateral mastectomies when all...
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The Little Things That Made Her Her…
My mom died in March 2003. She had survived cancer multiple times (breast x 2, lung, brain). She got through surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. And lived 17 years longer than her last cancer...
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Forgiveness
It’s not about the other guy. It’s not about the person who has caused pain. It doesn’t mean that ‘presto’, everything is OK about what happened. It doesn’t mean you condone anything that happened to...
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The Why of Loss
I remember when a dear friend of mine died unexpectedly a few years ago, I couldn’t get past the question ‘why?’. She had been through several complications and surgeries from a knee replacement,...
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Dementia Wins By A Landslide !
I worked in various nursing homes during the years I worked as an RN, starting in 1985. I worked as a ‘floor’ nurse, charge nurse, supervisor, and administrative (desk) nurse. Nursing homes really...
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The Emotionally Damaged Parent
Watching TV news, and working as an RN for years in the mental health and recovery fields, it’s so apparent why familial abuse is cyclical. Nobody knows any better. Nobody ‘grew up’ in a normal manner...
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Remembering Peeps and Mom
Mom loved Peeps This week will mark the 10th anniversary of my mom’s death. It really was a miracle that she lived as long as she did, considering bilateral breast cancer (one side was actually...
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Mother’s Day, Two Ways
Today is Mother’s Day, 2014 (May 11- kind of early this year). So much comes up whenever there is anything to do with moms and family. I was put up for adoption at birth, though not at the wishes of...
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