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	<title>Multiple Sclerosis Carer</title>
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	<description>My life with my husband with progressive MS</description>
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		<title>Unblocking the Veins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 23:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest breakthrough in treatment of MS gives great cause for hope.  It sounded the most unlikely of procedures when I first heard about it.  The theory is that the damage seen in MS stems from blockages in veins draining blood from the central nervous system.  These blockages result in poor drainage and even reversal of blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done a blog entry in the whole of April.  The Easter break took up four days and then only a week later came the school holidays which lasted for a fortnight, for most of which I had my 7-year-old grandson to stay with me.  The comings and goings seemed to swallow up April! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Routine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I wrote that on the very few occasions I was away, Don got quite stressed, and staff gave me advice that my regular visits were so much part of his daily routine that when I didn&#8217;t come, everything got out of whack for him.  His day lost its shape, as it were.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Times for Edith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who visit the nursing home on an almost daily basis are, naturally, closely involved in each other&#8217;s lives.  Clive became a resident almost three years ago &#8212; about six months after Don, so I was an old hand by then and helped his wife Edith find her way about in the beginning.  She hasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kangaroo and the Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had a kangaroo along the lakefront in recent weeks, and last week it was in front of my house.  I took a photo through my front fence because I didn&#8217;t want to scare it away.  My neighbour Simone got closer; she took some bread and it ate from her hand.  But kangaroos are not quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Visiting?</title>
		<link>http://www.mscarer.com/2012/02/19/how-much-visiting.aspx</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family were moving house last week, and asked if I could help for a day or two.  Don was keen for me to go and lend a hand, so I rolled my sleeves up and helped wash windows etc for two days. I was only gone for two nights, but when I came back Don [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Ross</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 42 years ago but I still remember vividly.  We didn&#8217;t have the telephone on in those days (can you imagine that, now?  we didn&#8217;t have the phone on!) so after he was born I phoned friends who had a phone.  It was 2 am and Margaret answered the phone, was told we had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit unfair in a previous blog entry when I described the activities as being just plonked in front of the TV with a lot of semi-comatose residents.  The activities officers actually go to a lot of trouble to have something reasonably interesting each day.  A church group comes in weekly to put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stir Crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.mscarer.com/2012/01/31/stir-crazy.aspx</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don seemed to me to be going downhill, and a couple of the staff also suggested that he was deteriorating.  He seemed more tired, and was sleeping a lot of the time I was visiting, was less alert, and seemed to be getting rather confused and disoriented.  I resigned myself to the situation, and thought I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.mscarer.com/2012/01/13/blogging.aspx</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted a blog for more than six weeks. Not sure how committed I am to this blog any more.  I often have a comment, an anecdote, some musings, that I think I will put into a blog, but then wonder if it is too personal and too public.  This isn&#8217;t just my story, [...]]]></description>
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