by Carolyn Thomas   ♥  @HeartSisters

I once heard the late author Dr. Leo Buscaglia tell a conference audience a touching story about how he grew up equating caregiving with love. When he was a little boy, for example, his own mother was cold and distant  – except when he was sick. During those times, she would sit at his bedside, stroke his fevered brow, spoon-feed him homemade soup, fuss over each painful twinge, listen carefully to his every wimper, and become the kind of loving mother he rarely knew when he was healthy.   

But when he grew up and married, he was shocked by his new wife’s behaviour toward him whenever he got sick.      . Continue reading “What I wish I knew back then: “Why newly diagnosed patients must choose their listeners carefully.”” →