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One Thankful Moment

The first half of year 2024 has been a challenging year for me and my hubby, who's been living with a neurological disorder. I had to find ways on how to monitor him at home while I'm at work. At first, I thought leaving him on his own while ensuring that I leave and come home early in a structured manner was good enough. He also has his smart watch and smart mobile phone to connect us instantly. Prompt video notifications from our front door also alerts me of his plans to go out. For the first few days, it worked as expected. When I'm at work, I get a chance to see whether hubby is out or inside the house. Then, one time, when I got home, I saw our garage wide open. I asked hubby if he's aware of it. He said he only stayed home the whole day and never got out. I reviewed the videos in the hopes of finding out what took place with the garage door through our front door's smart doorbell. In one of the videos, there's grainy movement at the far right side where on...

One Fall(ing) Day

Recently,  hubby and I were both on the way to the post office to another building on campus when this fall incident happened. It was so sudden that I could not even catch up to block his way. We did not realize that he skipped a step until it was too late and there was no handrail that he could at least reach out to keep him from falling quickly so he lost his balance --- four steps going down. He hit his face (left side) hard on the concrete ground. At first, he could not get up because of the impact and he got confused about what transpired but bystanders helped us. Security personnel came along and the first responders were immediately there to give him first aid.   He was assisted inside the nearest building where they let him sit in a corner, because he was too weak to carry himself, to assess his condition. He obtained abrasions on his left forehead, left cheek, the bridge of his nose, and his left nostril. He also had abrasions on bot...