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  • December 30, 2021December 30, 2021
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Family Caregiving

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In family caregiving, we caregivers have daily jobs that can try even the most patient among us, and the miracles never come often enough. But they do come. There are moments in family caregiving, just as in parenting, sailing and soldiering, that transcend the tiresome […]

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  • December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
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Before We Left India

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As for me, in our first week I was assigned the class of the youngest children and I had a two year old named Stanzin. Before leaving India, our participation in daily life at the orphanage and school had honed our abilities in living well […]

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  • December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
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Andy In India With Parkinson’s

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 Andy spelled it out for them, “I expect you will learn a lot from me in building this bridge together and I expect I will learn as much or more from all of you.” At the time, it was an unheard of idea to the […]

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  • December 4, 2021December 4, 2021
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Oreo Cookies

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I procured the Oreos for Passang and was rewarded with her bright smile. I cherished her smiles like precious jewels because they didn’t come that often and represented, to me, a resilient healing heart. The whole class liked Oreo cookies, but Passang, my one nine […]

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  • November 25, 2021November 25, 2021
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Class Party

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The dour teacher smiled, which was my personal reward. The children were excited for our class party. I had been able to procure guava juice and Oreo cookies at the Kumar Store in Dehradun. It was a favorite shopping place for me because they carried […]

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  • November 19, 2021November 19, 2021
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Understanding What Is Not Possible

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Andy was asked to design and build a 120 foot long suspension bridge, with a team of men who worked at the orphanage. Jackson Browne sings in Fountain of Sorrow, “And while the future’s there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it […]

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  • November 11, 2021November 11, 2021
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Party Like A Monkey

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“I feel grumpy.” I had said that morning when it was my turn, and a lot of the kids had followed my lead. In the midst of our grumpy group, I thought about the monkeys who had passed by me earlier and I announced, “We […]

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  • October 29, 2021October 29, 2021
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Stories Of Being Saved

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I was told I would be teaching a class of twelve newcomers, who spoke no English. Alana would not arrive for a couple weeks because she was finishing her second year of college, so I was on my own to start. It was 2008, the […]

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  • October 21, 2021October 21, 2021
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Using What You Do Have

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I also remember one day after Nana’s explanation of who I was, Baba lifted his hand up and gently cupped my cheek with his dry scratchy hand, and appeared to recognize me. There is never a more important time to count one’s blessings than after […]

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  • October 14, 2021October 14, 2021
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Losing Identity After Diagnosis

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For me, I had been partners with Andy for thirty years when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I was forty seven years old and extrinsically characterized as nice, unconventional, optimistic, spontaneous, and a little spaced out. Most of this was true. Any diagnosis of […]

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  • Fatigue
  • Swallowing and aspiration in Parkinson’s
  • Cognitive Slowness in Parkinson’s
  • Lack of Feeling and Numbness in Parkinson’s
  • Antidotes for Stiffness and Freezing in Parkinson’s

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