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  Journal Comment

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  Posted: 10/25/2016

  Powito commented on Shrn's journal Explaining my absence

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  Posted: 10/21/2016

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  New Friend

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  Posted: 10/21/2016

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  Am I a rare breed?

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  Posted: 10/20/2016

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  I often ask myself if I am a rare breed of man that confronted with a dilbilitating disease such as MS and its after effects will stay in and fight or leave. I chose to fight. When I meet Kathy for the first time she was outside soaking up the afternoon sun on an early fall day back in 2008. She was then a quadriplegic with MS. Her battery had died and when I had gotten home from work, she asked me if I could help her back to her apartment. I said yes. What struck me the most about her was her...

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  New Friend

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  Posted: 10/17/2016

  Powito became friends with rebl3157.

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  Discussion Comment

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  Posted: 10/17/2016

  Powito commented on the discussion Missing her.

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  Discussion Comment

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

  Powito commented on the discussion Missing her.

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

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  Discussion Comment

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

  Powito commented on the discussion Lost.

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  Discussion Comment

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

  Powito commented on the discussion New and still disoriented.

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  Discussion Comment

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

  Powito commented on the discussion How to move on?.

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  Missing her

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  Last Reply: raininseattle 10/23/2016

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  Unlike many of you that have lost a loved one suddenly, my loss took time. In the last two years of our marraige, I watched my wife deteriate in front of my eyes. Kathy had Multiple Sclerosis which left her a quadriplegic. My grief started two years ago with the hospitalizations and surgeries. Her slow death was my hell. I loved to take care of her and all of her ADL's (activities of daily living). Imagine for a moment of taking care of an infant that cannot fend for themselves. My Kathy was...

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  Joined New Group

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  Posted: 10/13/2016

  Powito joined the group Widows & Widowers.