Category Archives: Caregiver In Chief ALS can steal and steal and steal in ways that can’t be prevented…at least not yet. It can’t steal hope, desire, and plans for the future. Tom’s Marine Corps garden. He has desired a garden with Marine Corps colors since we moved into the house 8 years ago. He loved to garden. He was our […]  Waiting… Caregivers often do a lot of waiting. The longer we are a caregiver the more waiting we will do. We have often waited in so many healthcare waiting rooms we could write Yelp reviews like nobody’s business. We wait for appointments with the person we care for in all kinds of healthcare specialty practices […]  Every day I see this guy give it all he’s got. He is incredibly inspiring. So much so, I embarked on a health and fitness journey two years ago today. I was way past the category of a healthy BMI. In fact, I was considered obese. At the rate I was going I would end […]  The month of May is ALS Awareness Month. It is also the month Military Caregiver are recognized. Veterans are twice as likely to get ALS than non-veterans. Tom is a veteran of the Marine Corps. He served from 1972-1975. He was diagnosed with ALS on June 21, 2010. He has a slowly progressive variant of […]  This isn’t Tom and I robustly walking together on the beach in our senior years. It never will be us. It can’t ever be us. We will not retire together. When I retire it will be because he has died. We will never travel together to all of the places I wanted to see. We […] |
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