I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
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When you're going through all of this, the last thing you're thinking of as a patient, and especially as a caregiver, is to give yourself something that nurtures you and something that helps you not to get overwhelmed and burned out. Poetry, silence, walks, back rubs, or swimming, whatever, it's the thing you need most, and it's the thing you have to give yourself.Marcia Wallace
Doctors are not seeing people at their best. They're seeing frightened people, confused people, and overwhelmed people. If there's ever a time you need to have someone with you when you are being assaulted by the language of your disease and all the feeli
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There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
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I took off for New York City the day I graduated from college. I weighed 230 pounds and I had 150 in the bank.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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Being a caregiver is the most thankless role in the world. Everybody gives the patient some slack, as they should, but the caregiver has the stress of life and then you put a catastrophic illness on top of it, and the stress goes through the roof.
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