After my husband was recently diagnosed with two serious disorders, so much of life made a lot more sense -- the changes in his attitudes, memory, personality and general behavior were explained. Rather than just going through the world's worst mid-life crisis, it turned out he had a combination of a serious mental illness and was in the early stages of an extremely rare, fatal, untreatable, uncontrollable, progressive, degenerative brain disorder (Frontotemporal Lobe Dementia or "FTD" for short).
This blog is the place where I'm going to post my thoughts, reflections, memories, research and general writing on topics related to our families difficulties (including mental illness, impending death, single parenting, abuse, health, etc.).
I'll also include just various chit chat as we go along, as well. It should be a wild and varied ride. :-)
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives”
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. When you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." --Victor Hugo
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” --Voltaire
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come." --Robert Louis Stevenson
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." --Anne Lamott
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." --Lewis Carroll
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