by Kathy Collard Miller | May 13, 2009 | Audrey
Monday through Friday, we take Audrey to day care for seniors for about six hours. It’s a nice break for us and gives her the stimulation she needs. Yesterday, I arrived to pick her up and one of the seniors named Viola was standing in the door with her walker...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 2, 2009 | Audrey, Lewy Body Dementia
For those new to my blog, Larry, my husband, and I are caregivers for his 92-year-old mother, Audrey. She’ll be 93 next month–May 7th. She has Lewy Body Dementia which comes with paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. As I mentioned in yesterday’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 1, 2009 | Audrey, Lewy Body Dementia
After dinner as I was reading a friend’s ministry newsletter, I noticed the verse she’d put on top of it: “God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them”...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 9, 2008 | Audrey, caregiving
Since I tend to only blog on the challenging things that occur in my life (because after all, those are the things with plot!–things that POP!–that have “drawing to the Lord” power), I thought you should know that there are many daily things...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 24, 2008 | Audrey, compassion
I’m learning that one way to grow in compassion is to walk in another’s person’s shoes–no big new revelation, I realize, but I thought I’d share what’s that has meant lately.Audrey is maybe the slowest eater on earth. She realizes...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 13, 2008 | Audrey
I was taking my shower this morning and thinking of Audrey and her continual comment “that has never happened before.” She says that about her hearing aids hurting, hair growing on her chin, legs walking weakly, waking up in the middle of the night, waking...
