happiness

My best friend and mother Irma Irene Lastra passed on May 31st 2013, roughly 2 years after her diagnoses. I know she is resting in heaven and is now my guardian angel. I know she is doing everything she could do before she was sick in heaven. Dancing, eating, cleaning and all that she enjoyed...

I am at my wits end. My mom and I, due to inability to care for him and lack of financial support or family to help us help my father have had to let my dad go to a nursing home. My strong, vibrant, hilarious bear of a man father is now relegated to being manhandled by nurses that can't wait to...

My happiness is my husband my children my grandchildren sunrise with a cup of fresh coffee what is yours....

Christmas has left me empty. The season for joy and happiness has been haunted by the thought that this might be the last. Michael has gone down hill in the last six months...He is dependent - although not all day - on the ventilator. It has gotten into his digestive system - so food creates all...

Hello, I am new to this forum and my mom has ALS. My mom has lived with me for 6 years and early last year (2011) she began slurring and having trouble going up steps and falling down. We waited awhile until we went to the doctor because I am a single mother in the military with a 2 year old...

STARTING ANEW THREAD: CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER BY RICHARD RHOR The contemplative mind is the most absolute assault on the secular world view, because it really is an altogether different mind. The ego cannot rely upon it to do its bidding. The calculating mind of the “small self” reads...

He was like a younger, more sarcastic Santa Claus: While the rest of Sacramento slept, Dad would tumble (sometimes literally) out of bed to deliver the morning newspaper to every half-hidden house nestled within the unpaved Delta wetlands. He would come home at sunrise, smelling of coffee and...

After all my worry of ALS, I've decided to put it on the back-burner and look at things like EBV/Lyme/CMV. I've been feeling a bit better over these past weeks (dry gross taste gone, smelling is back), still have some joint pain, burning, and twitching. Still do get very hot sometimes but my...

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It has been 3 months and 6 days since my mom, my PALS, passed away. I took care of her at her house, so my own family was put on the back burner quite a bit, during those 2 1/2 years, especially the last 6 mos. or so. I have a blended family--husband, 3 children, 3 step-children, 3...