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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 685828" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Thanks to Going's post I remembered the book I am reading right now called <u>Wounded Storytellers, </u>by Arthur Frank.</p><p></p><p>It is about how illness challenges us to find new stories about ourselves and our lives, a need which continues until our last breaths. It talks about the renewal which occurs with these new and revised stories. How we find changed relationships to life.</p><p></p><p>The author makes points similar to Going's. And he especially talks about the dehumanization of modern medicine and how we should resist this.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, you are critical to your husband's survival and care. You need to be sustained as does he. Your choices about your own care are essential, too. This is so frightening. You may be as healthy as a horse, but your spirit, like all of ours, is a vulnerable flame, and must be protected.</p><p></p><p>Enlisting other family members, and getting together with them on how to best advocate for and support your husband (and you), will strengthen everybody. You and your husband, I believe, are stalwarts, rocks. Nonetheless, there is vulnerability.</p><p></p><p>Even Rain and Tornado. Do they know? Do you feel strong enough to involve them?</p><p></p><p>We, each of us, is praying for you and with you. Be well. Both. How I hope you will check in and let us know how you and he are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 685828, member: 18958"] Thanks to Going's post I remembered the book I am reading right now called [U]Wounded Storytellers, [/U]by Arthur Frank. It is about how illness challenges us to find new stories about ourselves and our lives, a need which continues until our last breaths. It talks about the renewal which occurs with these new and revised stories. How we find changed relationships to life. The author makes points similar to Going's. And he especially talks about the dehumanization of modern medicine and how we should resist this. At the same time, you are critical to your husband's survival and care. You need to be sustained as does he. Your choices about your own care are essential, too. This is so frightening. You may be as healthy as a horse, but your spirit, like all of ours, is a vulnerable flame, and must be protected. Enlisting other family members, and getting together with them on how to best advocate for and support your husband (and you), will strengthen everybody. You and your husband, I believe, are stalwarts, rocks. Nonetheless, there is vulnerability. Even Rain and Tornado. Do they know? Do you feel strong enough to involve them? We, each of us, is praying for you and with you. Be well. Both. How I hope you will check in and let us know how you and he are. [/QUOTE]
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