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Often when it is time to write a blog there is no topic to write about. My brain suffers writer’s block. All I do when that happens is wait a few days and something will occur in my life that I recognize as the perfect blog. I did not have that problem this time, however. My brother-in-law, Father Stan Wieser, spent four months in the Wheaton Senior Center waiting to die. The leukemia was ravaging his red blood cells, and…..
I have been spending a lot of time negotiating recently trying to gift someone my new watch. I was having little success gifting this beautiful watch until this past week and the gift was finally given! 🙂 Having been left behind in this technology crazed world I am still keeping track of time the old- fashioned way. I wear a wristwatch. I know it’s cool to carry an iPhone and whip it out of one’s back pocket when a time…..
Several blogs ago I shared my experience that I had enjoyed with our two daughters as they kidnapped me and forced me to leave Wheaton and travel with them to visit my grandson and his fiancé in Boonville, Missouri. I was concerned because that would require that I leave Kathie for five days in the Wheaton Care Center. My two daughters explained to me that Kathie, who was suffering from memory loss, would not even realize I would be missing…..
That blog title may sound a little callous but let me explain. There definitely was more to cry about than laugh about but I chose to concentrate on laughter. Sadly, Kathie passed away November 3rd. She had been the love of my life for 53 years. December 19th would have made it 54 years. I pride myself even though Kathie pleaded with me to bring her home from the Wheaton Care Center every time I went to visit her, I…..
As you are probably already aware my wife Kathie is in the Wheaton Care Center. During my frequent visits to the Center, I have been introduced to the traveling nurses. Traveling nurses have no hospital or care center to call home. Instead, they sign on to various hospital or care centers to work a set number of days and then move on to a new work site. Over the past couple of weeks, I have copied their work style. No,…..
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