So I Continue to Pretend My Life Will Never End

Parenting a child with autism alone while dealing with domestic violence. The results of pouring all your energy into your children and then paying for it with your health, possibly even your life.

Parental Alienation Part I:

My sons father has always been kind of a combative person. He’s always been insecure about himself and generally kind of unhappy. I met him when I was still married but was having some marriage issues. I married young and even though my husband was a good friend to me- we were just too youngContinue reading “Parental Alienation Part I:”

To Shoshana, wherever I May Find Her…

My only daughter. There were so many smiles, so many laughs, so much happiness until we learned that this was temporary. The love would always stay, but dampened, stamped upon, ground out like old pieces of wood…no longer useful to the owner. And owner there is. Despite the life being harvested, nurtured and flourished byContinue reading “To Shoshana, wherever I May Find Her…”

Nurses and Trauma Bonding with their Patients

If you look online at how nurses talk about “never keeping in touch with a former patient” “because it’s wrong” or “a gray area” or a whatever self righteous reason, it’s a fact that many health care providers do, in fact, end up befriending a former patient eventually. We meet so many people and takeContinue reading “Nurses and Trauma Bonding with their Patients”