{"id":14042,"date":"2018-07-08T06:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2018-07-08T06:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T10:56:24","slug":"bookending-caregiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14042","title":{"rendered":"Bookending Caregiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SpouseMay2018-300x249.jpg?resize=300%2C249\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SpouseMay2018.jpg?resize=300%2C249&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SpouseMay2018.jpg?resize=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SpouseMay2018.jpg?resize=362%2C300&amp;ssl=1 362w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SpouseMay2018.jpg?w=410&amp;ssl=1 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As many readers of this blog know, my Spouse has a chronic illness and no medical professional can figure out its cause, or treat it.  Trust me, we&#8217;ve&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;tried a number of rational, reasonable, medically-indicated approaches, but so far, no luck.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity of caregiving is stressful and takes a toll on my psyche.  Everyone says, &#8220;caregiver, take care of yourself.&#8221;  How can one take care of himself when his beloved Spouse needs so much attention?<\/p>\n<p>Spouse is a real trooper.  He endured an invasive medical procedure on Thursday.  Preliminary results are: &#8220;we didn&#8217;t see anything&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then he had another MRI on Friday morning. This time, it was a closed MRI which is quite claustrophobic.  However, Spouse got through it.  He is such a trooper!<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon, Spouse saw a specialist who took biopsies of suspected skin cancer.  Likely he will have to have those pre-cancerous lesions removed soon.<\/p>\n<p>Spouse just can&#8217;t get a break.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Sunday, Spouse is resting.  He is okay to be left alone for a while.  So once again, I am going for a Harley ride with buddies to break stress on what promises to be a stunningly beautiful day with lots of sun, mild air temperatures, and low humidity &#8212; rare for July in these parts.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  ride to relieve stress of caregiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many readers of this blog know, my Spouse has a chronic illness and no medical professional can figure out its cause, or treat it. Trust me, we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}