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All love is sweet, Given or returned Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still. –Percy Bysshe Shelley Speaking with the voice of love can make a huge difference when communicating [...]
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If your LO seems to ignore you, or completely disregard their environment at times — consider whether hemineglect might be playing a role. Hemineglect is often seen after strokes, and results in the failure of the LO to be aware of anything on one side of the space. Usually, this is seen after a stroke [...]
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As I had mentioned earlier in this blog, a friend ended up stranded in Las Vegas after a holiday went awry… tending to her mother in the hospital. “Jill” is a gadget freak, so of course she owns an iPhone, which became very useful during the extra two weeks she spent in the hospital. The [...]
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I flew out to see a friend in Las Vegas last week. Jill had been on vacation with her elderly mother, who fell and became seriously ill from complications after the fall. Jill had been stuck at the hospital for several days in a strange city, without friends or family for support. So, I took [...]
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Give a doll to an Alzheimer’s patient, and watch her light up with joy. For patients in the deepest throes of Alzheimers, a doll is an invitation to return to the happiest, most loving parts of the past. For women, it’s often the time when they were young mothers. A doll can help that overwhelming [...]
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I once met a shopping angel. She was a clerk at a down-and-out family-owned grocery store that would soon close, forced out by the megabox retailers that had opened in our town. Jenny was poorly paid and worked hard for her meager wages. But she made her job — taking grocery delivery orders — into [...]
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