The Bedroom #Poetry #Tuesday Tidbit

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This coming Thursday, September 10^th, would have been our 15^th wedding anniversary. As I explained in My Ideal Partner, on September 11^th, 2006, while others were commemorating 9/11, I was both anticipating and dreading my late husband Bill’s homecoming from the nursing home where he’d been recuperating from his first stroke. From this point forward, I would be caring for him on my own. Despite the training I’d received from the facility’s occupational therapist, I didn’t know if I was ready for this.

But as you’ll read in the book, after a few false starts, we got along fine for six years until he passed in October of 2012. The following poem, which appears at the end of the chapter where I describe Bill’s homecoming, illustrates how anticipation can be interrupted by necessary bodily functions. You can click the play button below the poem…

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2 Responses to The Bedroom #Poetry #Tuesday Tidbit

abbiejohnsontaylor says:

September 8, 2020 at 10:52 am

Thank you, Patty, for re-blogging.

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  September 8, 2020 at 1:00 pm
  
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