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Dear Healthcare Provider (Guest Blog)

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 / michellegunnin / 4 Comments

Recently, I wrote a blog about Mom's hospital stay. I wrote it from the perspective of a family caregiver and addressed it directly to the hospital.  Now my sister Melinda, a nurse practitioner, has written a guest blog from the perspective of a healthcare provider to Healthcare Provider. She makes important points for all those … Continue reading Dear Healthcare Provider (Guest Blog)

Dear Hospital

January 31, 2020February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 11 Comments

Dear Hospital, You were created as a place of healing.  You exist with a mandate to preserve life. Those who work within your walls are compassionate and desire to help others in the direst of circumstances.  They bring health, comfort, and relief to the suffering who have been brought to you for assistance. It is … Continue reading Dear Hospital

Compounded Grief

January 6, 2020February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 11 Comments

There is an ache in my chest, which wakes my brain.  It is not a physical ache, but an emotional one.  My brain rouses my eyes and my feet slide out from under the warm covers to tiptoe to my computer…trying not to wake the sleeping dogs.  It is a familiar walk through the dark … Continue reading Compounded Grief

Dear Friends and Family (2)

December 28, 2019February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 5 Comments

Dad and I talk together pretty often about Mom’s daily condition.  We look at her new behaviors and we try to analyze what each one means.  Is she getting worse?  Is this new?  Is she sick or is her mind just disconnected?  Melinda and Dad also analyze every moment especially the medical ones.  Everything that … Continue reading Dear Friends and Family (2)

It’s the First Time

December 15, 2019February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 15 Comments

It happened for the first-time last night. We took Mom to a Christmas concert, and after we got her seated she looked at me and asked, “Do you know who I am?”  The look in her eye told me she didn’t know who I was and she was wondering why I was helping her. I … Continue reading It’s the First Time

Unexpected Sorrow

December 5, 2019February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 2 Comments

A wave of sorrow hit me yesterday unexpectedly, but I have come to recognize grief when it knocks on my heart’s door.  I’m not sure if I can say grief is my friend, but I am getting acquainted with the daily visits and finding they are a pressure release…if I don’t slam the door.  Grieving … Continue reading Unexpected Sorrow

Walking Them Home

November 25, 2019February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 12 Comments

I never rode a bus to school when I was a girl.  I walked.  It wasn’t 10 miles in the snow, uphill, both ways. No, nothing like that.  It was a simple, mostly flat, couple of miles.  Mom walked us to the corner every day.  Then, most of the kids in our neighborhood, walked on … Continue reading Walking Them Home

Dear Friends and Family

October 27, 2019February 1, 2020 / michellegunnin / 12 Comments

I have been doing dementia research this week; not really, but it seems that way.  There have been two excellent dementia awareness events near me that I attended with my family. If you know my dad at all, you know he is a bulldog. It is why he was such a successful business man. He … Continue reading Dear Friends and Family

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