I left New Zealand mid-2003, bound for Istanbul and a new lif. After two years, a Belgian guy lured me into his world, deep in the heart of Europe. For a long time I was an in-process immigrant. One day we married. These days it's about photography, a little red wine and wandering ... and so the journey goes.
I have seen that happen so many times, well not 30 mins apart, but witin days/weeks of each other. We even got a patient in with "Broken Heart Syndrome"--it has another fancy medical name that I promptly forgot. It's amazing. Hard on the families, but has to be reassuring that one half of the couple is not left alone. A friend of mine lost his father and the mother had Alzheimer"s. She had to be told everyday that her husband had died and grieved anew every day. It was a nightmare for that family.
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I have seen that happen so many times, well not 30 mins apart, but witin days/weeks of each other. We even got a patient in with "Broken Heart Syndrome"--it has another fancy medical name that I promptly forgot. It's amazing. Hard on the families, but has to be reassuring that one half of the couple is not left alone. A friend of mine lost his father and the mother had Alzheimer"s. She had to be told everyday that her husband had died and grieved anew every day. It was a nightmare for that family.
I think I imagined it was mostly fiction, Annie.
How terrible it must have been for the woman with Alzheimer's - that would have to be one of the ultimate nightmares.
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