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Today is my 55th birthday. I feel alone. My ex who I care for has decided that he has no interest in making me happy. I get grunts. I get no thanks. I am a servant. Plain and simple.

He has come a ways from when he first had this stroke. Five months in and now we find out he had a heart attack as well and must see a cardiologist.

In the waiting room on the eve he was to come home a male nurse overheard him tearing into me. I began to fall apart. After the…

Forgive your trespasses: You are a care partner not a Saint

As a care partner it is easy to get wrapped up in the idea that you have to be perfect, a saint if you will. We are trying to be all things to all people and lest not forget those around us reminding us we are doing something most people could not or would not ever do. For this reason it is easy to get caught up in the idea that we should not experience human frustrations or emotions.

 There can become a…

I am not a blogger by any means.  Although I can admit a sense of freedom in writing down my feelings (thinking no one would actually read what I wrote!).  I am amazed at the number of replies I received about what I wrote a few weeks ago.  It is so hard when you don’t have anyone to talk to.  Some days I want to scream my frustration, loneliness, sadness, etc. 

When I wrote my list of things that I know I feel, it was mostly to just be able to say them “out loud.”  It’s the first…