Family. What defines it? Because of all the support groups for Hydrocephalus, I belong to and through my blog, I incorporated the phrase at the top of today’s post in my Hydro Logo. Nothing brings it home more just how big and affected this family is when one of...
Articles with the Tag Death
So how does it happen? A shunt breaking inside your brain, that is…
I honestly don’t have the answer to this question…all I know is, that it has and can happen. If I thought this condition was scary before, I’m definitely on a different page today. Travis Shumate was a fellow Hydro warrior who unfortunately had this happen to his shunt. It...
To my friend who has just been told she has 3 months to live because she has stage 4 ovarian Cancer
“I’m sorry…” seems to be the first words that come to mind. Sorry for so many things because somehow, I just feel this is wrong and unfair. Sorry because you were a little girl that I knew once upon a time, a girl whom I envied and loved because...
We are not meant to live forever
There’s something I’ve always read and seen but never fully paid attention to. When we die, we leave this world just as we came into it, with nothing. All our possessions and wealth, no matter how big or small will be left behind. As a human race, we seem...
Who will take care of me when I can’t?
A concern most people have…I’m sure. Something, which insurance companies prey on…and, in hindsight understandably so (I’m sure they would justify it with “it’s the risk we take at the cost of making our money”). With that said though, no insurance company will touch you with a feather if...
How do I explain to her that I will not live forever…
A few weeks ago, I was mindlessly watching something on TV…the name escapes me now but it was much like CSI. In the end, some crazy guy shot and killed a teenage girl’s parents and little brother in front of her. At the time, I didn’t realize that my...
When death comes in the morning…
Death…something, which I talk about often (maybe too often) and also something, which has been at the forefront of my mind lately. I went through a phase when I was younger, where death did not bother me at all. In fact, I welcomed it to some degree… Don’t get me...