Tag Archives: Alzheimer’s Love Story

Announcement: A Website for Care Partners and Journeyers

“Love kindness. Build community. Believe in humanity.” That quote is the tagline for this Humanity Hiker website. I created this website before our 5,000 mile walk across America. At the time I could not disclose that our main purpose was … Continue reading

Posted in Brain Health Needs, Home Care Journal, Humanity, Journeying | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Announcement: A Website for Care Partners and Journeyers

Cause and Benefit of Belly Sobs

My aspirations have changed from hiking around the world with Cindy to watching geographic documentaries while feeding her.  Today I concluded watching the National Geographic series “Europe from Above.”  Every episode induces at least one belly sob. My belly sobs … Continue reading

Posted in Embrace Joy, Home Care Journal, Living Well | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Desert Aura

I spent four days of reflection in the desert aura of Tucson, Arizona while staying at a Residence Inn. Around 7:00 am each day, I had the morning caregiver for Cindy call me. She held the phone near Cindy for … Continue reading

Posted in Home Care Journal | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

A New Sleep Hack

I discovered a new sleep hack I can add to the ones I shared previously.  In my Elder Rest post I distinguished between hacks to help me fall asleep at bedtime from those needed when waking up in the middle … Continue reading

Posted in Brain Health | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Brain Health Cake?

What do you give a person in the final stage of Alzheimer’s everything she really needs,? I decided on baking a brain health cake for Cindy’s 66th birthday. Not having baked a cake in decades did not deter me. I … Continue reading

Posted in Brain Health, Care Partner Vignettes | Tagged , | 6 Comments

The Town Center and the Pub

“Can I pay with my looks?” Our kids now cringe whenever I ask a clerk or waiter that question.  They were with me when I got the best answer from a checkout clerk at a convenience store in Long Island. … Continue reading

Posted in Lasting Love | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Balancing Coverage

Recently I received more coverage.  I will not say permanently yet, since past experience taught me better.  Yet for now at least I am being confronted with the challenge of extra coverage. The writings and music I work on take … Continue reading

Posted in Home Care Journal | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Our True Love Beginning

Here you go, the first true love background post. I arrived at the “zombosis land” trailhead as people on the practice hike were passing through.  Appalachian Trail (AT) thru-hikers bestowed the name “zombosis land” on the heavily forested, fairly level … Continue reading

Posted in Hiking Partner, Lasting Love | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

My Updated New Ten Year’s Resolution

Happy New Year! Last year at this time I posted “My New Ten Year’s Resolution” about my plan for keeping active and increasing my social engagement. I had assumed that when Cindy turned 65 last February my home health aide … Continue reading

Posted in Home Care Journal, Lasting Love | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Lasting Love: Past and Future

Cindy and I wanted this blog to inform and inspire others who may find themselves in a similar situation. I never considered that to be the telling of a love story, though a few readers commented they have that impression. … Continue reading

Posted in Lasting Love | Tagged | 6 Comments