The Nervy Ten
Ten minutes of nerve brought to you from the descent into caregiving.
Below are the ten-minute diary entries of one caregiver to a partner with frontotemporal degeneration variant lvPPA (primary progressive aphasia) and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. It may not read like a typical diary, but contains poetic and/or philosophical ramblings of the lived experience from day to day.😍
The views posted here are those of one caregiver and should not be generalized to every caregiver's experience. However, you might find that it rhymes with your experience. Or you might be a curious observer of the experience, since all of us will be asked to care for someone or be cared for by someone at some point in our lives.
Regardless, dear Reader, you are welcome here. May some of this be a balm for you. And, despite the warnings of those who have traveled the depths of the underworld previously, do not abandon all hope. 💗
❓Question– Did you train enough for the climb?
⁉️Wrong Question– Do you have enough endurance for the descent?
I thought I was scaling a mountain
Ten minutes of nerve brought to you from the descent into caregiving.
Bridget Kelley-Lossada
The Cantos (I-V)
Follow me down, there might be joy at the end
Jesus was crucified, died and was buried;
he descended into hell, on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven (Apostle’s Creed) What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one
Bridget Kelley-Lossada
Introduction to The Nervy Ten