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Losing Parents

How I Said Goodbye To My Dad

Betty Londergan | Posted 04.27.2013 | Fifty
Read More: The Sandwich Generation, Death, Dying, End of Life, Aging, Losing Parents, Saying Goodbye to a Parent, post50, Fifty News
Betty Londergan

One of my best friend's father is dying and even though she's miles away, I can feel the sorrow behind the funny emails she sends me. Because she doesn't work and her kids are grown, she's had the time to go out and stay with her parents as they've moved through Alzheimer's, strokes and chronic old age.

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Saying Goodbye to Our Parents: Their Trip Home

Gary Nelson | Posted 03.24.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Baby Boomers, Losing Parents, Faith, Heaven, Grief and Loss, Dementia, Causes of Dementia, Fifty News
Gary Nelson

Maybe where this place called home is located is not what's so important. Instead, it's what we believe home to be, which is someplace very familiar to us, the place where we all came from.

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How I Told My Daughters That Their Mother Was Dying

Creekmore World | Posted 11.10.2012 | Parents
Read More: David Creekmore, Losing-Mother, Talking to Kids About Cancer, Talking to Kids About Death, Losing Wife, It's a Creekmore World, Cancer, Losing Parents, Widower, Trisha Creekmore Memorial Service, Creekmore World, Trisha Creekmore, Parents News

This blog post originally appeared on It's A Creekmore World. Trisha Creekmore passed away on October 18th, 2012. Her memorial service was last night....

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My Mother's Mother

Ali Sweeney | Posted 07.11.2012 | Impact
Read More: Cancer Prevention, Mother's Day 2012, Breast Cancer, The Biggest Loser, Mother's Day, Cancer, Moms, Stand Up for Cancer, Losing Parents, Breast Cancer Awareness, Impact News
Ali Sweeney

I may not know firsthand what my grandmother went through when she was diagnosed, but I know how her loss has affected my mother. I can only hope that my children, and their children, won't ever have to face the prospect of a life with cancer.

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PHOTOS: Dealing With Grief Through Writing And Drawing

Sarah Leavitt | Posted 07.04.2012 | Books
Read More: Slideexpand, Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's, Losing Parents, Tangles, Grief, Death, Books News
Sarah Leavitt

I've always had a really bad memory. So when my mother got Alzheimer's disease, I knew that I had to record what was happening to her and to our famil...

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Making Sense: How I Learned To Embrace the Chaos

Dani Shapiro | Posted 06.13.2011 | Women
Read More: Women, Therapy, Womens Wellbeing, Women Aging, Grief, Womens Issues, Fertility, Losing Parents, Fertility Treatments, My-Story, Women News
Dani Shapiro

Around the time I turned 40, I went to see a therapist. My mother had recently died. My little boy had been seriously ill, and I found myself questioning everything.

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