Searching for the Words
My husband is dying with Frontotemporal Dementia. Here is where I process this uninvited, unanticipated, and unwelcome journey.
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Flesh of my flesh
I’ve had moments when my husband’s diagnosis weighed so heavily on me I thought, I didn’t sign up for this.
But after sitting with that thought for a while, I realized, in fact, I did. Signing up to care for him no matter what is exactly,...
Taking inventory
Last week, after receiving notice that a package awaited pickup, I sent my husband on a mission to retrieve it from the community mailbox in our building’s foyer. He returned with a smile, but without the parcel.
“Where’s the package, hon...
A barbecue tale
When Doug and I were married, one of his (more creative) clients gifted us an entire case of New York strip steaks and a case of red wine. I remember thinking we could eat steak every week for a year! A barbecue became one of our first purc...
On whiskers and watching
When I was a child, I would perch on the closed toilet seat lid, watching my dad shave. That memory popped into my head this week.
I have no idea how old I was—maybe five or six? But in my memory, my elbows rest on the edge of the vanity,...
It's the little things
It’s funny how sometimes it’s the smallest things that can get to you.
For me, it is child safety plugs. You know, the plastic electrical outlet covers that plug into outlets so little ones can’t harm themselves by inserting other objects...
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My husband of 40 years is living, and dying, with frontotemporal degeneration—a rare form of dementia. My name is Patricia Paddey. I search for God in the midst of our days and process that journey here.
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