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The Middler

Pam Johnston

Dispatches from the thick of it: middle age, dementia care, and balancing life as a writer with everything else.

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A Year of Firsts

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Father’s Day is coming up next weekend, the first one Mike will spend in memory care. I’d already decided that I wasn’t going to say anything to my adult children about this; managing their relationship...

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Say What You Mean

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In the town where I grew up, there was a place called the Booth Memorial Home. I didn’t know it was an actual place until I was well into my grade school years; I’d heard adults say She went to Booth, but...

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Downsizing

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A few weeks ago, my therapist (who has played a key role in maintaining my sanity over the course of the last year) asked me what I wanted my life to look like now. By now, she meant now that you’ve accept...

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The Weighing

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I told a friend that Mike had been admitted to a hospice service earlier this month. She gave me the sympathy head tilt. You know the one: ear to shoulder, eyes closed, often accompanied by a sigh and fo...

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Where We Are Now

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After Mike’s most recent hospitalization, I contacted the nursing director at his memory care facility and asked whether she thought it was time to have him evaluated for hospice care. Although his physical...

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    Writer, professor, novelist (Little Lost River), dementia caregiver, memoirist in the making. Forever just trying to get everything done.

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