In my last post, I described how my mood affects my Spouse’s mood, and subsequently, affects his overall health.
I have been working hard to maintain a positive attitude, with a broad smile and genuine warmth to go along with it.
Well, it paid off…
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While caregiving for The Spouse during a crisis period yesterday, I had some time in between bouts of extreme emotion, frustration, anger and pain to crop and post photos of …
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I have mentioned several times on this blog that my spouse still suffers long-term (and probably permanent) life-altering effects from the residual impact that toxins produced by bacteria have had on his body, his brain, and his endocrine system. My spouse was sick for three long years, and now suffers from permanent damage the disease left behind.
I see the behaviors as a result of…
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Last week, The Spouse was not feeling well. He was not sick, he just was not feeling well. Then it got worse…
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My blog is delayed with updates. As usual, I am having a bit of writer’s block again because there is just not much new information about boots that I have not already covered before on this blog, on my boot wiki knowledgebase or on or within my website overall.
Plus, The Spouse…
The relapse of the infection that my spouse has been fighting this week has produced highly variable symptoms, including vertigo, nausea, brain fog, and aphasia (unable to express words, though he knows them.)
Because of the room-spinning dizziness, he could not keep solid foods on his tummy. The brain fog — a cloud of non-comprehension — caused him to not be “in the present.” He could function physically, but not mentally. The combination of these symptoms is frightening.
I posted yesterday that my spouse was missing. Last night, however…
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Has anyone seen my spouse? He is the good-looking hunk who hangs around our house. He is the one who tends to our gardens, does all our laundry, and cuts coupons to match them with sales that we frequently save 40% or more on our weekly groceries.
He is the one who puts up with a lot of crazy things I do, from entertaining hundreds of seniors on Thanksgiving each year to spending a lot of time caring for others, remodeling homes, and being a wonky community activist.
My spouse is the guy who…
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I am very unhappy. My beloved spouse who had dealt with a horrible long-term illness that put him through three YEARS of hell has had a relapse. (I wrote about our ordeal in many posts on this blog, tagged here.)
My spouse has been in remission from symptoms for 21 months, but for about the last week…
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My spouse and I do not get out much. He is usually in so much pain from damage caused to his joints from his three-year hell of illness and fatigued by the lingering sleep disorder that the illness left behind, he does not want to, or have the energy to, do anything. Anywhere. At any time.
So imagine my delight when we had one of those rare happy and joyful moments for an outing. Last Saturday, my spouse and I got into my truck and we drove…
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In mid-March, my spouse underwent a procedure to have bone marrow tested for encapsulated organisms that were the source of his three-year battle of infection, pain, and suffering. I wrote about that procedure here.
We just got back the results of that test.
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