Category: Health
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Caregivers Need Breaks
by Alan: Caregiving is difficult, more difficult than many people expect when they make their wedding vow, “in sickness and in health.” The word makes people think of helping people shop, bathe, pay bills, and clean and do laundry. But it includes helping with psychological aspects like depressive symptoms and adjusting to new limitations. I…
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About listening to pain
by Alan: Pain is exhausting. It takes energy to maintain a mental wall that holds back my pain, so I can keep moving despite how I’m feeling. There isn’t much I can do about my pain. Medications conflict with other medications, leaving me with no safe options. Any relief I get from medications is short-lived…
Two Suns & Separate 