When Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger (can we talk?)

[1monster]

71. Steve, stay as long as you are physically able. When you give up something you love

due to an illness, you also give up a reason for fighting for the best quality of life you can have... I'm helping my husband fight that battle with Parkinson's now.

If you are concerned about how others perceive your posts, then make apost about your condition and how it might affect what you write on DU and put a link to it in your signature line.

I would like to think that we on DU have enough compassion and empathy to do what little message board members can to ease the paths of those traveling a rough road. Those who don't are not worth the pain they may (inadvertantly or othetwise) inflict.

We, none of us, know what challenges life will throw at us...only that the challenges will come. I sincerely hope that your diagnosis is something far more benign than ALS.

Shalom.