Ch. 71 Pat Forgets but then She Remembers
November 2020. (Note that we first covered this topic in Ch.62: Short- and Long-Term Memory Loss, that was written in April, 2020.)
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Ch.69 I’m Grateful We Can Still Disagree
November 2020
I stumbled into a difficult situation a few days ago. It concerned a man I’ll call Sidney, a
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Ch.67 “This is My House”
October, 2020
Pat makes this remark and then points out several items on our fireplace mantle that are familiar: two paint by
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Ch.64 Exhaustion and Relief
August 2020
These last few weeks have been physically and psychologically exhausting for me as Pat has endured the symptoms of bullous pemphigoid,
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Ch.61 Pat has a Second Syncope Episode – but Doesn’t Remember It.
June, 2020.
It’s 8 a.m. and Pat has risen to start the day. I hear her exiting the bedroom,
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Ch.60 Pat Tells Us about A Major Decision
Our family has begun weekly zoom sessions to lessen the isolation associated with Covid-19 safety precautions. This
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Ch.59 Ron Becomes Anxious and Irritable
Summer, 2020
Lately I’ve been anxious and irritable. I’ll talk about my irritability later in this essay, but for now let
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Ch. 58 Care Partner Goals: Safety, Pleasure, Joy
Neuroscientists write that the best thing we can do for a newborn child is to offer that child
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Ch.57 One Year Anniversary of Ron’s Heart Stent Operation
Today is May 23, 2020, exactly one year after I received my unexpected heart stent operation.
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Ch.56 Short- and Long-Term Memory Loss
April 2020
I asked Pat what she thought of the movie we’d seen together the day before. “What movie?” she
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Ch.55 Working Together
March 2020
I’m getting our blog ready to publish as a book. It’s complicated. Today I need to do something a little tricky: is
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Ch.56 Short- and Long-Term Memory Loss
April 2020
I asked Pat what she thought of the movie we’d seen together the day before. “What movie?” she
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