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Aging Parents
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His bridge partner of ten years arrives and brings him a pamphlet on holistic approaches to treating cancer. Has he met my dad —Jimmy Dean sausage's biggest buyer? The bridge partner asks me how my kids are doing. He thinks I'm my brother Christian. I tell him my daughter is becoming an accomplished hair stylist and colorist, which my niece is. Two more bridge players come up and ask to pray over Dad. I start to imagine a Christian rock group named the Fundamentalist Bridge Play-ers. Then his mo
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― Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
― Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
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I told him I would go up there; he said no, no, everything was fine. I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. He was fast asleep; after the stroke he sometimes nodded off in the middle of things. I woke him, and when he saw me he patted my cheek. 'Good boy,' he muttered. I made him change his clothes and then fixed us a dinner of fried rice from some leftovers.
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― Native Speaker
― Native Speaker
A discussion and support group for people who are caring for parents, grandparents or loved ones…more
18 members,
last active 9 years ago
...April 02, 2014 to May 02, 2014...
For a decade, I was sole, unpaid caregiver for my mother w…more
2 members,
last active 12 years ago
Aging well, creativity, compassion, caregiving, and flourishing at any age.
2 members,
last active 9 years ago
