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Growth is the only evidence of life.Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html#wiB2wtsm9BpRrxcD.99
| "Growth is the only evidence of life." John Henry Newman
As caregivers, we will experience days of stormy clouds. We are currently. Much less lucidity, more physical difficulties - such as falling, much more complaining. It seems odd that now is when he has begun again to insist that he does not need assistance, when he can no longer dress himself. There are stormy cloud within our role as caregivers; the point will be to not allow ourselves to be swept away with the storms. We must, by necessity, develop some objectivity. This terminal illness is not our journey to take. Witnessing respectfully the journey of the person with the terminal illness is our journey --- not the illness itself. I believe there is a purpose in everything in life, and it is my daily intention to see the purpose his journey has for me, but I must remember --- his journey is not mine.
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