tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364669902775880430.post6379559317191198934..comments2023-05-22T05:23:33.917-07:00Comments on Love in the Time of Chronic Illness: helping partners cope with illness: My Partner, My MemoryBarbara Kivowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04069286366650175153noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364669902775880430.post-25433259365176317392014-03-09T07:32:04.262-07:002014-03-09T07:32:04.262-07:00Hi Lynda. Sharing half a brain is a great way to ...Hi Lynda. Sharing half a brain is a great way to describe it. And I too agree that if not for my SO the place I'd be in would be much grayer and more limited.<br /><br />Thanks for your commentBarbara Kivowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04069286366650175153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3364669902775880430.post-90919782248239406362014-03-08T14:02:22.211-08:002014-03-08T14:02:22.211-08:00We are each others' other half of the brain is...We are each others' other half of the brain is how we describe it to others who don't have a significant other with whom to share this phenomenon. It almost always is a good thing and helpful; altho it can be annoying if what he remembers exposes me in a bad light-even if true. I will be lost if he predeceases me and I don't know that he will be so if I do him. He's much better equipped, in all areas, to be on his own and alone. I need someone close by and to live with or I forget how to tend to my own needs and drift into aimless reading and sleeping patterns which, altho not outright harmful, need to be watched so as not to become All I Do. <br /><br />I still attend to my own dr appts altho he will drive if I need him to - he visits a nearby friend while I am in the office so it works out well so far.<br /><br />We've been together almost thirty years and have been thru periods of great need and other times when I was the one who was providing the care as he fought a health battle or two over the years. But for the most part, he takes good care of me: shops, cooks, dishes, laundry, yard and vehicles...<br /><br />Were it not for him and his caring for me I would be a different person in a different place and I am certain that place would not be nearly as nice as this one is.Lynda Halliger Otvos (Lynda M O)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08938791116446859160noreply@blogger.com