Love Category
The kindness of caring
Posted on July 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
As the days turned to weeks, and weeks to months it became more and more obvious that I would be caring for Mum permanently.
Letting go
Posted on June 15, 2015 1 Comment
Caring for my Mama, for my Martha is not easy. It is also not the hardest thing either. If you resist it, it’ll be cruel to you, if you let it in, it’ll be magic!!
Letters to my Mama… part 1
Posted on June 11, 2015 1 Comment
Firstly I wanted to tell you that I love you. I love you so much it often brings tears to my eyes just thinking about you.
Tonight I showered you
Posted on January 23, 2015 1 Comment
Tonight you needed to shower. Your nurse hadn’t come this morning and you needed to shower. I got you undressed and left you to shower on your own. Usually you can and it is fine, a few minutes later you were back in your room getting dressed. I told you to stop, I could of […]
Fear of the unknown
Posted on January 22, 2015 3 Comments
So I have done a bit of writing over the past few days and have published it to the blog, but not posted it up on Facebook. Fear is what is holding me back. Fear of judgement. What I don’t want is for you to think that it is like this all the time or […]
The dance of exhaustion..
Posted on October 21, 2014 3 Comments
At the end of two weeks of full on work, I can say with conviction I AM EXHAUSTED. More than that I am near breaking point. My head is constantly filled with what I need to do, what I haven’t done and what I have been doing. I have slipped into seriously bad habits of eating […]
Hope..
Posted on September 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
As defined by Oxford dictionary; Hope – Grounds for believing that something good may happen.. Alzheimers in its cruelty is not a disease that gives you much hope. As a degenerative neurological disease it is designed to take every last inch of the person it has set its sights on. First it takes things like […]
Me, Martha and Alzheimer's 