Tag: caregiving
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DISCOMFORT OF WAITING
TW: grief, loss, illness It’s day 12 of a medley of viruses attacking my daughter’s immune system. She’s back asleep in my lap, stealing those rare, quiet moments she can take up space by herself. When little sister is still sleeping in the bassinet and “bubbah” is off to daycare alone. Again. Though he’s also…
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THE YEAR OF SILENCE
Around the time I entered middle school, my mother and her mother spent a year not speaking. Plenty of families experience these types of estrangements, which can make the holidays tense or even a time of grieving. What made my mother’s estrangement from her own mom odd was not the length itself but how long…