PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles IX: MenPhew. What a week of testosterone. First, on Sunday, Will Smith walks up on stage and slugs another man. Then, looking out my window, I see…4 min read·May 10, 2022----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles VIII: ODTAAODTAA. One Damn Thing After Another, as Douglas used to say.4 min read·Apr 22, 2022----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles VII: RageI called 911 tonight. I felt guilty about doing that because I knew all I wanted was someone else to help calm Douglas down and I wasn’t…5 min read·Apr 22, 2022----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles VI: Dites MoiDouglas has taken a turn for the worse. He has entered a shouting phase, punctuating the day and night with outbursts of yelling, mostly in…3 min read·Apr 22, 2022----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles V: Owning the FactsDouglas’s former wife once said to me, “People would like you better, Penny, if you weren’t right all the time.” For some reason, I found…3 min read·Jan 6, 2022----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles IV: AmyAmy, Douglas’s caregiver, is a godsend. Really. I have no other explanation for my good fortune in finding Amy.5 min read·Dec 7, 2021----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles III: What to DoDouglas, in his prime, had a hyper-engaged life with a million friends and a zillion interests. Even after retiring, he never had trouble…5 min read·Dec 7, 2021----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles II: The Night PersonI would like to believe that the person Douglas has become with dementia is not the person I married, that dementia has taken Douglas away…4 min read·Dec 7, 2021----
PennybrynnCaregiver Chronicles I: The Seventh AgeI want to try to write about this, to write myself out of the insanity, or to make some sense of it. I want to write for the people living…7 min read·Dec 7, 2021----