Dan’s Blog

            When we get upset, as we must from time to time, what is going on and what should we do? You see what you say and do when you are stirred up can have consequences and ramifications for a long time if you are unwise. Wisdom is...

          It started a week or two ago but it is happening more often lately. These waves come crashing over me. I will have been busy doing something and when I finally stop, up out of my chest comes this wave that just crashes over me. It is...

              This caregiver likes to start his day checking a daily bible verse source, as well as some Rumi, usually from a random opening of a book. In fact, because of Claire's gifts to Jane, I and herself, we all have new...

          I tell you, while I am so blessed by having so much help, wow, the effort to co-ordinate it is not insignificant! I now routinely have four different ladies in waiting taking care of HRH. I have government provided PSWs three hours a...

            Tough call for my father-in-law and I both yesterday. I had the easier role as I was the person taking charge and making sure everything will work out okay, whereas he was the loving husband staring his wife's death in the...

            My Mom has pretty advanced Alzheimer's and is completely terrified when it comes time to get her up, clean her up or put her to bed. I experienced this first hand when I helped the nurse put her to bed. She screamed and...

            He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 This is my walk, actually my prayer for this year is "more of you,...

                I write, and therefore I am. As the writer, let me first introduce or re-introduce myself. I am a follower of Jesus, I was a follower of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Guruji) who I still regard as the greatest man alive...

          I walked into my in-law's suite last evening to find her lying in bed babbling and waving her arms to something only she could hear. And he, with his hearing loss, was leaning towards her from his seat on the couch for a sip of...

            At first, the decision to take the Palliative Care Train seems like a relief as you are no longer striving to get places but allowing yourself to be carried more by the "natural" impetus of your loved one. Up to this point we...

                      Last week together they decided that they did not want the new PSW’s attention and asked to have her sent home. I was unable to do anything about it and had to let it go. The problem was that...

I invented a game that he accepted, and she was willing to play: taking turns having morsels of food, say from a plate of cheese and crackers. Once he had a piece, he couldn’t have another until she did. It worked well, particularly when I was there to prompt her,...