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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

  Hi Darling, Coming home from the hospital with a mechanical device fitted to my chest – a P.E.G. I think it… [more]

• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 87 The doctor said I can go home this morning. The surgery has had the desired effect and this new means of… [more]

• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• Our Journey Through The Valley (23)

  17 June, 2013

  MIKE:  In the 13 years that I have had Parkinson's Disease, I have chosen not to join a Support Group. The idea of meeting with people who also have PD, many of whom are further down the track  so far as the manifestation of symptoms is concerned....well, I'd rather not! I operate on a "need-to-know" basis. If I do not need to know, then I pull back until such time as I do need to know!

  Last week Bev and I attended a support group for those with Motor Neurone Disease. To sit across the table from a man who was diagnosed with MND last November and to see how rapidly he has deteriorated, that was very confronting. Here is Bev's response:

  BEV:  Frankly, the experience was nowhere near as confronting or intimidating as I had thought it would be. We had to leave for another commitment when the meeting was officially over so we missed what we suspected followed i.e. the informal interaction among the sufferers of MND. Somewhat to my surprise I came away thinking that I would certainly go again. Meantime, the sense of God's presence remains undiminished every day.