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4 Everyone Has Their Own Story 1938
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6 Meet Julia Child, Well Spouse 1354
7 Money Matters - Financial Planning for Caregivers 1209
8 My Mantra 1334
9 Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience 2996
10 Redefining Normal 1287
11 Resiliency in Caregivers 1133
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14 Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor 1679
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16 The Well Spouses I Know 897
17 Top 10 Things Caregivers Don't Want to Hear 1791
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19 Transitioning from Well Spouse to Former Well Spouse 1601
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Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience

Playing the Canada Card:

an American Caregiver's Experience

  By CEIL SINNEX Copyright © 2009 Ceil Sinnex             

 My husband John’s disease erupted like fireworks in the afternoon of my New Year’s Eve birthday seven years ago. I went out for the afternoon and returned home to find a stranger who only looked like John, talking gibberish and tearing our house apart at the seams. The siege lasted 16 hours.I thought of survival, not of Canada. As it turned out, survival and Canada would become one and the same.
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