Gary’s shared linksSTRATFORD, NJ, USA This time last year, I was watching my grandmom. Wow. Yep, today is my one-year anniversary as a full-time Alzheimer’s caregiver. (My mom brought cupcakes to faux-celebrate.) Friday was one year since my last day of work. Yesterday was one year since I moved back to New Jersey. And one year ago [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA It was November 19, 2006, when I moved back to NJ, and November 20 when my grandmom came back home from the rehab center and this little adventure started. So, it’s been 11 months. I’ve been using the anniversary date each month to make some sort of blog commentary of how I’m [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA Note: Here’s an interesting dichotomy about me: on one hand, I think I’m a pretty open, public person, as evinced by this website. But, at the same time, there are some topics that I rarely, or never, touch on here, or even with friends. They’re personal, and I don’t feel like sharing. [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA Fun fact: usually, when I don’t update my website for a few days, it’s for of one of the following reasons: I’m busy. I’m lazy. I have nothing worthwhile to say. Actually, scratch that last one. My readers know that I frequently post even when I have nothing worthwhile to say! But [...]
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STRATFORD, NJ, USA 8:20 am. Ugh. I most certainly wasn’t planning on being up yet, but since I am, I might as well post. Dan’s wedding weekend has been pretty fun so far. Thursday night was his bachelor party. I met up with him and his friends after a Phillies game, and we just hung [...]
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Way back in February, I posted about how my grandmom’s life is ruled by the TV. I feel bad that I sometimes use the tube as a babysitter, but it’s not all bad. The TV gives my grandmom’s life a familiar routine, which genuinely seems to comfort her, in addition to maintaining her circadian rhythm. [...]
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Sunday was the nine-month anniversary of my move back to NJ to look over my grandmom. Here are some statistics: 5377 hours spent with my grandmom 256 days that either my mom or I have watched over her 140 miles I moved from my old home in Maryland 30 weight, in pounds, that I expected to gain. [...]
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Back from Boston, safe and sound. I’ll have more posts coming up soon (later today and/or this week), such as a general update on my grandmom after 9 months and a trip report of my visit to FENWAY PAHK! But for now, I just wanted to post a link that my mom just sent me. [...]
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A few years ago, my grandmom and I had an arguement. She was convinced that the earth was flat. “Otherwise, we’d all fall off!” Me, I espoused the Platonic/Aristotalian view that the world is round. The other night, in the hospital, my grandmom and I had another arguement. She was certain that, now that she [...]
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In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera theorizes that laughter is a tool of the devil. We laugh at chaos, dissorder, and absurdity in life–the aspects contrary to a divine plan. Angels may try to laugh with satisfaction at how well-ordered and meaningful things are, but that itself is absurd and laughable. (Kundera says it [...]
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