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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Banana: Two Ways
I had this too-good-to-be-raw bowl of Banana Buckwheat Crispies with Chocolate Macadamia Nut Milk for breakfast this morning after downing my daily green juice:
The buckwheat crispies are crunchy like granola, but they're made by soaking and then dehydrating raw buckwheat. The instructions are in Ani's Raw Food Kitchen. The chocolate macadamia nut milk (sweetened with dates) is what I had leftover from making Gena's Chocolate Chia Pudding.
Another delicious breakfast this week was inspired by Chocolate Covered Katie — the famed (and sorta dirty sounding) Banana Hammock:
It's a banana, cut in half, and stuffed with raw almond butter, currants, and acai powder. So, so good. Raw almond butter may just be the best stuff on the planet — ever. I could eat a whole jar with a spoon. But I won't ... cause that would be a little excessive.
By the way, I'll be using a random number generator to choose the winner in the $50 iHerb.com shopping spree giveaway Friday morning (around 11 a.m. CST). I'll make the announcement when I blog again on Sunday, but if you're the winner, I'll shoot you an email immediately. Thanks for participating!
Also, for any readers in Middle Tennessee (or West Tennessee and willing to drive), a few dudes from the Farm (an awesome vegan intentional community in Summertown) are playing a Bluegrass & Blues for Haiti benefit show at the Crockett Theater in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee on Sunday, January 24th from 1 to 4 p.m. Check it out for a great cause.
35 comments:
- Jenni (aka Vegyogini) said...
You're so right about that...raw almond butter just might be the best-tasting food I've ever eaten!
- January 22, 2010 at 12:02 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
I love your banana two ways! Both ways look delectable. Aren't bananas one of the most perfect foods? I have at least one every day. Plus, they are the best thing to shove in my purse or bag when I'm in a rush out the door and know I'll be hungry later. They naturally come in such cute packaging! ;-)
- January 22, 2010 at 12:42 AM
- miss v said...
oh my, i couldn't live without bananas. the hammock looks dang tasty - kinda like an banana split without the ice cream. yum!
- January 22, 2010 at 12:58 AM
- Dani said...
21 days of no sugar, I am in awe! great job girl!
I don't even like bananas, but that looks too cute.
- January 22, 2010 at 1:12 AM
- T said...
Those both look like great breakfast options, ACT or not. Especially the banana, yummm.
- January 22, 2010 at 3:30 AM
I think I'm going to try the buckwheat thing, I love crunchy in tha a.m.!
- January 22, 2010 at 5:49 AM
- Mihl said...
I love to eat bananas instead of chocolate. Funny, but it satisfies my cravings. Never had banana with raw buckwheat, sounds so good!
- January 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- jessy said...
your banana buckwheat crispies look so yummy, and i love the sound of that chocolate macadamia nut milk, Bianca. macadamia & brazil nuts are my absolute favorite! i have been seeing all those tasty banana hammocks on katei's blog, think i need to jump on the bandwagon and make one, too. i love the idea of raw almond butter - it's sooooo tasty. i agree! enjoy your cheat day this weekend & happy friday!
- January 22, 2010 at 7:41 AM
- Chocolate-Covered Katie said...
Ahhh! Once again, it looks SO GOOD! But so does everything else you make. And that breakfast pudding is making me hungry again even though I just had some nice chocolate oatmeal.
I wonder if I could get away with having a third breakfast today...
Too bad I don't have macadamia nuts anyway.
Off to see about this chia pudding... :)
- January 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM
LOVE the banana hammock ;-)
- January 22, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Mary said...
I used to love PB & banana sandwiches, but I've been doing a lot of peanut butter and raisin banana hammocks since I can't eat real bread anymore. Your breakfast looks decadent! I want to try raw almond butter...I've had roasted, but the raw is like, $20 a jar. I'm afraid I'll love it and start an expensive new habit!
- January 22, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Leslie Richman said...
Eww..the only banana hammock I can endorse! It looks good!
- January 22, 2010 at 11:03 AM
I love buckwheaties! They are super awesome. I always keep a jar in my fridge or at least I have since I got Ani's book this summer. Raw almond butter is the bomb. I have been putting it on sprouted grain bread with raw honey(I know not vegan) but totally yum! You are doing a kick ass job. I lasted 15 days and have fallen back into my cooked, tofu eatin' old habits. It was a tough week, but I'll be back on the saddle with ya next week. Have a great cheat day! I love all these recipes you are sharing. Thanks!
- January 22, 2010 at 9:17 PM
I love buckwheaties! They are super awesome. I always keep a jar in my fridge or at least I have since I got Ani's book this summer. Raw almond butter is the bomb. I have been putting it on sprouted grain bread with raw honey(I know not vegan) but totally yum! You are doing a kick ass job. I lasted 15 days and have fallen back into my cooked, tofu eatin' old habits. It was a tough week, but I'll be back on the saddle with ya next week. Have a great cheat day! I love all these recipes you are sharing. Thanks!
- January 22, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Sarah said...
Oh how I love buckwheat crispies. I've been struggling every day to decide between a green smoothie and my other breakfast staple - buckwheat crispies, goji berries, almond milk, chia seeds cherries and some macadamia nuts. Mmmmm... Hungry now!
- January 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM
- Sassy-Kitchen said...
I don't know if you've seen this around you, but Chia Goodness cereal is amazing. It's made by the canadian company, Ruth's, and contains raw buckwheat, chia and hemp seeds. You can make it warm or cold and they even have flavored ones, like apple cinnamon. I think you'd like it..
- January 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Vegan In The VI said...
I thought a 'banana hammock' was the resulting look when a guy wears a thong...
- January 23, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Cassie - Vegan Fox said...
We've been on a banana kick lately, so I'm really glad to see this post. We did a quick banana fry recently, just folded bananas covered in agave nectar and a little cinnamon in a tortilla and fried. So tasty! I'm excited to try the buckwheat crispies. I just got Ani's book for Christmas, so I will have to try these soon.
- January 23, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Cassie - Vegan Fox said...
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- January 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Cassie - Vegan Fox said...
Oh and forgot to say, wish I was there to enjoy the Bluegrass!
- January 23, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- PageRank Check said...
second one seems more tasty i love to try it
- January 23, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- Unknown said...
wow no sugar..youre doing great though!! :)
the bananas look awesome, i love anything fun with bananas, they're pretty great :)
- January 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- Trinity (of haiku tofu) said...
that banana hammock looks amazing!
- January 23, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- Christine said...
Mmmm, great banana ideas and I'm a huge fan of almond butter ... almond milk, almond pulp, almonds :-P
- January 24, 2010 at 8:38 PM
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- January 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- Michal said...
I love be some banana hammocks ;) They are deelish!
- January 24, 2010 at 9:39 PM
- Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...
Banana Hammock! ha.
- January 26, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Alice said...
That banana hammock looks amazing! I too like the combination almond butter+banana, I sometimes have the two in a wholemeal bread sandwitch with some maple syrup on top ..as good as peanut butter and banana!
- January 29, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Kristen said...
that banana looks delicious! awesome name for it, too. haha.
- January 31, 2010 at 1:27 AM
- Veg-In-Training said...
Wow. Both banana dishes look really awesome. I'm very intrigued by the buckwheat crispies.
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- February 10, 2010 at 7:59 PM
- Mary said...
I had to come back to this post and tell you that I MADE some raw almond butter (in my new VitaMix) and it is the BEST! So creamy and rich, and the best part was when it came out of the VitaMix, it was warm. I could have eaten it by the spoonful, it was better than any cookie dough. Next time I'm going to add cinnamon. *drool*
I probably wouldn't have thought to make raw almond butter if you hadn't raved about it, so thanks!
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Not only did the first lady attend the teen's funeral, but the girl's parents were set to sit with Michelle Obama during the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Obama is scheduled to return to Chicago three days later to discuss gun violence.
Homicides in Chicago topped 500 last year for the first time since 2008, stoking residents' concerns about gun violence and leading the police department to put more officers on the street and to focus more on combatting gangs.
McCarthy, who is pushing for tougher gun laws that would increase minimum sentences for gun crimes, noted that Ward was arrested in January 2011 on a gun charge but he received probation after pleading guilty to unlawful use of a weapon. If Chicago had laws like those in New York City, McCarthy said, Ward wouldn't have been on the streets.
"This has to stop. Gun offenders have to do significant jail time," said McCarthy, who rose through the ranks of New York City's police and is the former police director in Newark, N.J.
McCarthy said the arrests occurred after police figured out that the description of the car in which the shooter fled matched the description of a vehicle in which Williams had been pulled over a day before the shootings. The police superintendent noted it didn't come from a tip from the community.
"I'm sad to point out we did not get our target audience to step up," he said.
Just as the December killing of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., brought renewed scrutiny of the nation's gun laws, the death of the popular Chicago teen has cast the city's gun violence in a new light.
Earlier Monday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel seemed to make just that point.
"The only time when the gun issue ever gets affected is when Newtown happens," he said. "What happens in urban areas around the country too often ... gets put to the side."
He said that while it's not wrong that massacres stir such debate, what happens on the streets of Chicago and in other urban areas "gets put in a different value system."
"These are our kids," he said, his voice rising. "These are our children."
Emanuel joined McCarthy and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez at an afternoon news conference to announce they would push for tougher gun laws that would increase the minimum sentences and require offenders to serve at least 85 percent of their sentences.
They say the law now allows offenders to be released after serving no more than half their sentences and sometimes obtain their release after a matter of weeks.


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LOS ANGELES — Dick Clark stood as an avatar of rock 'n' roll virtually from its birth and, until his death Wednesday at age 82, as a cultural touchstone for boomers and their grandkids alike.
His identity as "the world's oldest teenager" became strained in recent years, as time and infirmity caught up with his enduring boyishness. But he owned New Year's Eve after four decades hosting his annual telecast on ABC from Times Square. And as a producer and entertainment entrepreneur, he was a media titan: his Dick Clark Productions supplied movies, game shows, beauty contests and more to TV, and, for a time in the 1980s, he boasted programs on all three networks.
Equally comfortable chatting about music with Sam Cooke or bantering with Ed McMahon on "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes," Clark was listed among the Forbes 400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark, who died of a heart attack Wednesday at a Santa Monica hospital, also was part of radio as partner in the United Stations Radio Network, which provided programs — including Clark's — to thousands of stations.
"There's hardly any segment of the population that doesn't see what I do," Clark told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview. "It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, 'I love your show,' and I have no idea which one they're talking about."
One of his later TV projects, "American Dreams," served as a fitting weekly tribute to Clark's impact. Airing from 2002 to 2005, this NBC drama centered on a Philadelphia family in the early 1960s and, in particular, on 15-year-old Meg, who, through a quirk of fate, found her way onto the set of Clark's teen dance show, "American Bandstand."
The nostalgic "American Dreams" depicted a musical revolution, which Clark so reassuringly helped usher in against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil. While never a hit, the series was embraced by older viewers as a warm souvenir of the era that spawned Clark, and as an affectionate history lesson for their children and grandchildren.
President Barack Obama noted the nostalgia. "More important than his groundbreaking achievements was the way he made us feel — as young and vibrant and optimistic as he was," Obama said in a statement.
Clark bridged the rebellious new music scene and traditional show business. He defended pop artists and artistic freedom, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in an online biography of the 1993 inductee. He helped give black artists their due by playing original R&B recordings instead of cover versions by white performers, and he condemned censorship.
He joined "American Bandstand" in 1956 after Bob Horn, who'd been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired. A year later, Clark integrated the show with black dancers.
"It still wasn't acceptable for them to dance with white kids, so the blacks just danced with each other. We were waiting for the explosion, but it never happened," Clark told Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine in 1998. "The wonderful part about our decision to integrate then was that there were no repercussions, no reverberations, no battles at all — it just happened right there on a television screen in front of millions of people."
Under Clark's guidance, "Bandstand" went from a local Philadelphia show to a national phenomenon, introducing stars from Buddy Holly to Madonna. It was one of network TV's longest-running series as part of ABC's daytime lineup from 1957 to 1987.
"I played records, the kids danced, and America watched," was how Clark once described the series' simplicity. In his 1958 hit "Sweet Little Sixteen," Chuck Berry sang that "they'll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P-A."
As a host, Clark had the smooth delivery of a seasoned radio announcer. As a producer, he had an ear for a hit record. He also knew how to make wary adults welcome this odd new breed of music in their homes.
Clark endured accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic Lester Bangs defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage experience." In the 1985 interview, Clark acknowledged the complaints. "But I knew at the time that if we didn't make the presentation to the older generation palatable, it could kill it.
"So along with Little Richard and Chuck Berry and the Platters and the Crows and the Jayhawks ... the boys wore coats and ties and the girls combed their hair and they all looked like sweet little kids into a high school dance," he said.
Clark suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk. That year, he missed his annual appearance on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."
He returned the following year and, although his speech at times was difficult to understand, many praised his bravery, including other stroke victims.
"I'm just thankful I'm still able to enjoy this once-a-year treat," he told The Associated Press by email in December 2008 as another New Year's Eve approached.
Ryan Seacrest, who subsequently took over main hosting duties on the countdown show from Clark, said in a statement Wednesday that he was "deeply saddened."
"I idolized him from the start," Seacrest said. "He was a remarkable host and businessman and left a rich legacy to television audiences around the world."
Record executive Clive Davis called Clark "a true pioneer who revolutionized the way we listened to and consumed music. For me he ranks right up there with the giants of our business."
Friends on Wednesday recalled a patient, encouraging man. "He was there for every crisis of my life and there were many," Connie Francis said in statement. "Without Dick Clark there would have been no career because I was ready to abandon it. Dick was the most principled man I ever met in this business and treated everyone the same way, even if you were the little guy."
Said Pat Boone: "Careers grew because of Dick Clark."
Clark was honored at the Emmy Awards in 2006, telling the crowd: "I have accomplished my childhood dream, to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams come true. I've been truly blessed."
He was born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in 1929. His father, Richard Augustus Clark, was a sales manager who worked in radio.
Clark idolized his athletic older brother, Bradley, who was killed in World War II. In his 1976 autobiography, "Rock, Roll & Remember," Clark recalled how radio helped ease his loneliness and turned him into a fan of Steve Allen, Arthur Godfrey and other popular hosts.
From Godfrey, he said, he learned that "a radio announcer does not talk to 'those of you out there in radio land'; a radio announcer talks to me as an individual."
Clark began his career in the mailroom of a Utica, N.Y., radio station in 1945. By age 26, he was a broadcasting veteran, with nine years' experience on radio and TV stations in Syracuse and Utica, N.Y., and Philadelphia. He held a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University. While in Philadelphia, Clark befriended McMahon, who later credited Clark for introducing him to his future "Tonight Show" boss, Johnny Carson.
In the 1960s, "American Bandstand" moved from black-and-white to color, from weekday broadcasts to once-a-week Saturday shows, and from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Although its influence started to ebb, it still featured some of the biggest stars of each decade, whether Janis Joplin, the Jackson 5, Talking Heads or Prince. But Clark never did book two of rock's iconic groups, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Elvis Presley also never performed, although Clark managed an on-air telephone interview while Presley was in the Army.
The show's status as an American cultural institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand's original podium and backdrop to the Smithsonian Institution.
When Michael Jackson died in June 2009, Clark recalled working with him since he was a child, adding, "Of all the thousands of entertainers I have worked with, Michael was THE most outstanding. Many have tried and will try to copy him, but his talent will never be matched."
Clark kept more than records spinning with his Dick Clark Productions. Its credits included the Academy of Country Music and Golden Globe awards; TV movies including the Emmy-winning "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle" (1984), the "$25,000 Pyramid" game show and the 1985 film "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins." Clark himself made a cameo on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and a dramatic appearance as a witness on the original "Perry Mason."
In 1974, at ABC's request, Clark created the American Music Awards after the network lost the broadcast rights to the Grammy Awards.
He was also an author, with "Dick Clark's American Bandstand" and such self-help books as "Dick Clark's Program for Success in Your Business and Personal Life" and "Looking Great, Staying Young."
His unchanging looks inspired a joke in "Peggy Sue Gets Married," the 1986 comedy starring Kathleen Turner as an unhappy wife and mother transported back to 1960. Watching Clark on a black-and-white TV set, she shakes her head in amazement, "Look at that man, he never ages."
Clark's clean-cut image survived a music industry scandal. In 1960, during a congressional investigation of "payola," or bribery in the record and radio industry, Clark was called on to testify.
He was cleared of any suspicions but was required by ABC to divest himself of record-company interests to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. The demand cost him $8 million, Clark once estimated. His holdings included partial ownership of Swan Records, which later released the first U.S. version of the Beatles' smash "She Loves You."
In 2004, Clark announced plans for a revamped version of "American Bandstand." The show, produced with "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, was to feature a host other than Clark.
He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1994 and served as spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Clark, twice divorced, had a son, Richard Augustus II, with first wife Barbara Mallery and two children, Duane and Cindy, with second wife Loretta Martin. He married Kari Wigton in 1977.


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Courtside View: KG trade will define Ainge's tenure
You knew Celtics executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge was going to have to mortgage the farm in order to bring in a Hall of Fame talent such as Kevin Garnett.
As it turns out, it appears he had to throw in a lot of the livestock, feed and a few of the family pets as well.
But the two prized possessions he kept - Paul Pierce and Ray Allen - combined with the 10-time All-Star Garnett may well give him the foundation to replace that lovable, yet struggling, farm with a palatial estate within a matter of months.
It's a gamble that Ainge and Celtics ownership are apparently willing to take as they close in on the most significant move in recent franchise history - and the one that should ultimately define their collective tenure in Boston.
Ainge has said throughout his extended rebuilding process that he was stockpiling pieces that would allow him to surround Pierce with the talent necessary to contend for a championship. He sent a few of those pieces - Delonte West and the fifth overall pick (Jeff Green) - to Seattle on draft night, along with oft-injured Wally Szczerbiak, for Allen.
That was probably enough to get the Celtics back into the playoffs and in position to challenge for the Atlantic Division title. But while he said on draft night that collection had ``no excuses,'' he likely knew he would need more for this team to be playing well into June.
He could have gone the conservative route and signed a marginal center and backup point guard for the veteran minimum. Or he could have gone for it all with the biggest, most glamorous and most expensive prize available.
Once he decided to aim for the stars, there was likely no turning back.
As word filtered out yesterday that more and more pieces were a part of Ainge's bid, you couldn't help but shake a bit at the scale you pictured in your mind.
On one side was Garnett, and on the other was Al Jefferson, and Gerald Green, and Theo Ratliff (a.k.a The Expiring Contract), and Sebastian Telfiar (OK, you weren't so broken up about that one). Then came the first-round draft picks - two of them - and then the probability of much beloved local guy Ryan Gomes.
You knew Garnett would cost a lot, and you knew he was worth a lot, but a seven-for-one deal?
That sure is a lot of cabbage for one guy.
By then, though, you knew you were on the hook and you knew Ainge and the Celtics were as well. They may have been able to keep Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins out of the deal, but you weren't going to let the chance to put three of the top 25 players in the NBA together slip away because of a likable role player in Gomes or a ball of potential in Green.
If you make this deal, nobody is talking about the longterm anymore anyway.
No, by this point you couldn't resist lunging after the golden carrot.
The argument against trading Jefferson in a package for Garnett prior to the draft was that you weren't sure how far the Pierce-Garnett combination would really take you. The second round of the playoffs, maybe? Perhaps the Eastern Conference Finals if you drew the same path that the Cavaliers skipped through this spring?
But a Pierce-Garnett-Allen triumvirate is entirely different. You have three 20-point scorers, 22 All-Star games between them. Having Allen, coming off his best scoring season at 26.4 points per game, as your third scoring option is a numbing thought for those who've dutifully watched this team win 57 games over the past two years combined.
It is a monster package to give up. But if you are not going to give it up for Garnett, then for whom are you saving it? If you are not going to do it now, then what are you waiting for?
The chance to get a player like Garnett may come around once in a decade, or longer. Passing on that chance could cause regret for years to come.
So when that chance arrives, you - like Ainge and the Celtics - close your eyes, hold your breath and jump.
For all its faults, it was an endearing little farm you watched over the last couple of years.
But building that mansion was always why you were in the market in the first place.
(Scott Souza is a Daily News staff writer. He can be reached at 781-398-8006 or email@example.com.)


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Eight cars burglarized in Yreka
YREKA – Eight parked vehicles were burglarized Sunday night in Yreka and various miscellaneous items were reported stolen. No arrests have been made and the incident is under investigation, stated Yreka Police Department Sgt. Mark Gilman.
The burglarized vehicles were parked in the northwestern section of town on Fairchild, Miner and Discovery streets as well as Terrace Drive.
All eight of the vehicles had been left unlocked and there were no signs of forced entry, explained Gilman. He noted that none of the vehicles were stripped, although several victims reported the loss of personal items and a few reported that their guns had been stolen.
The mother of one of the victims told the Daily News that her daughter's credit card, driver's license, cash and checkbook was stolen from her vehicle.
"We really want to urge citizens to always lock their vehicles and to not leave valuables in their cars," said Gilman.
Anyone with information about these burglaries is urged to contact the YPD at 841-2300.


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A person of interest in a murder case can't – or won't – recall whether she killed a friend
Turn of Mind. Alice LaPlante. Atlantic Monthly Press, 305 pp., $24.
By Janice Harayda
Has anyone noticed the existence of a micro-genre, novels about Jennifers who represent Jesus? First came Erich Segal's Love Story, a 1970 bestseller about Jennifer Cavalleri, a young Radcliffe graduate with a fatal illness and a father-in-law who saw her as unworthy of his well-born son. Now there's Turn of Mind, a murder mystery narrated by Jennifer White, a retired 64-year-old hand surgeon with Alzheimer's disease whom police think may have killed her daughter's godmother.
Alice LaPlante draws her religious parallels more explicitly and with more finesse than Segal did in his romantic melodrama. Jennifer White cherishes a 15th-century antique that once disappeared briefly from her Chicago home, an icon that involved St. John of Damascus, whose legend says that authorities amputated his hand after he was framed for forgery and that the intercession of the Virgin Mary led to its reattachment. The body of Jennifer's friend Amanda O'Toole was found with four fingers surgically removed from its right hand. Does the disappearance of the icon relate to the murder?
Jennifer can't or won't offer the answers the sought by the police. She has lost so much of her memory that at times she can't recognize her grown children, Fiona and Mark, and keeps a journal in which she and others write things she must remember. Her dementia leads you to expect her to be an unusually unreliable narrator. But the notes that others leave in her journal suggest that Jennifer may be most trustworthy character in the book. Is she less reliable than a son who wants her money or a daughter with a red-and-blue rattlesnake tattoo, a potential serpent in Eden?
This plot is reasonably interesting, but it rises above that of a conventional murder mystery mainly by having a protagonist with Alzheimer's and by gaining a literary gloss from by a few techniques beloved of creative-writing programs. LaPlante omits quotation marks and shows who is speaking by alternating italics and Roman type. This device gives its narrator a flat affect at odds with her strong personality and doesn't always make the identity of the speaker clear immediately, especially when Jennifer switches late in the book from first-person narration to second- and third-, a sign of her growing distance from her former self. Turn of the Mind is, in some ways, a stunt novel — one more literary than, say, David Nicholls' One Day, in which the characters reunite each year on the same day, but still one that won't let you forget its narrative tricks.
But LaPlante adds interest to her story by weaving in a subplot involving faith. She uses her narrator's mental shifts — between the past and present, lucidity and derangement, light and darkness — to forge subtle links between spiritual and temporal resurrection. Early in Turn of Mind, Jennifer recalls a conversation in which the murdered Amanda said that physical trauma can cause someone to lose faith in God. As the plot unfolds, the possibility arises that a catastrophic change can also restore faith.
Jennifer at first professes not to believe in God, although she wears a St. Christopher medal: "I was raised a Catholic, but now I just like the accessories." But if she rejects the Father, she has more in common with the Son than that they are both known for healing. She has counterparts of the apostles James and Peter. And she has a Mary Magdalene, a faithful aide named Magdalena who stands by her though the police inquiries and who responds when Jennifer asks why she has confessed to an unsavory past, "You forgive trespasses." If any doubt remains about what the novel is suggesting, Jennifer says that Amanda told her after her diagnosis: "How many times will I have to say good-bye to you, only to have you reappear like some newly risen Christ."
It isn't giving away too much to say that in the end Jennifer seems to allow God back into her life without quasi-spiritual bromides such as Love Story's: "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Turn of Mind tells us that when you've lost yourself, something remains — the possibility of transcendence. As Jennifer's mind ebbs late in the book, she has visions: "The playground. The white Communion dress. Playing kickball in the street." She also has hope. "There is a good place here," she tells herself. "It is possible to find it."
Best line: A leader of an Alzheimer's support group tells its members: "Step One is admitting you have a problem. Step Two is forgetting you have the problem." Jennifer wants to add a third step: "Step Three is remembering that you forget."
Worst line: A newspaper obituary in which the author tries to imitate the style of the Chicago Tribune. Among its lapses: It says a dead woman turned up without saying who found the body, which newspapers virtually always do, and it uses the phrase "sources close to the investigation" without first saying who was investigating the death (ditto).
A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide with discussion questions for Turn of Mind appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on Jan. 15, 2012, in the post that preceded this one.
Furthermore: Turn of Mind won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for a book about health or medicine.
Published: July 2011 (Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover edition), May 2012 (Grove paperback, forthcoming)
Editor: Elisabeth Schmitz
Read an excerpt from Turn of Mind.
You can follow Janice Harayda (@janiceharayda) on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button at right. Jan is an award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour and the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
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What happened to the review of A Drowned Maiden's Hair, the children's novel that many people thought should have won the 2007 Newbery Medal?
A new review of a book for children or teenagers appears every Saturday on One-Minute Book Reviews with all reviews permanently archived in the "Children's Books" category. But since Feb. 25 I've written more than a half dozen unplanned posts about the uproar over the 2007 Newbery Medal winner, Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky, which angered some librarians with use of the word "scrotum" on the first page. These posts have included a book review, a reading group guide, and a list of reasons why the American Library Association might have given the novel its most prestigious award for children's literature.
So the review of Laura Amy Schlitz's A Drowned Maiden's Hair that was supposed to appear today will be posted on Saturday March 10. Comments on other children's books may appear later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, if you're looking for some light entertainment, you may enjoy my two posts about the amusing search terms people have used to find my comments on the The Higher Power of Lucky. My favorite terms include "lucky scrotum," "a character named scrotum," and — yes — "janice harayda scrotum."
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Mid-IR Spectroscopy Reduction
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The midir package now includes a spectral reduction pipeline, msreduce. This can be used either with a spectrum of a single object or with two spectra, one of the science object and one of a telluric standard. In the former case a wavelength- (but not flux-) calibrated spectrum is produced, while in the latter case a flux-calibrated output spectrum can also be obtained. This section is a step-by-step description of the reduction process. The examples given here are for the low resolution spectroscopy mode of Michelle, but very similar remarks apply to the reduction of T-ReCS spectra and spectra taken at higher resolution, even for Michelle's echelle mode. The main differences with the higher-resolution modes are that the wavelength calibration requires a different line list from the default one in the package, and that the handling of the fringing is also different at higher resolution than it is for low resolution spectra.
The Observations
A normal set of spectroscopic observations includes the following:
- a spectral observation of the target object
- a spectral observation of a calibration object
- a spectral flat observation
- a bias observation
The flat and bias observations are optional; they are taken for all Michelle spectroscopy, but are not done for T-ReCS spectroscopy. For a point source it turns out that the flat and bias correction does not appear to make a big difference in the output spectrum. It is likely to be more important for an extended source.
The calibration object will either be a star or an asteroid. Asteroids are needed as calibration targets at high spectral resolution because (unlike many stars) they are bright and have featureless spectra, allowing the removal of telluric features. For low resolution N-band or Q-band spectra stars are more often used as calibration sources, since they also allow approximate absolute flux calibration if their spectral energy distribution is known (see here for more information on selecting good telluric standard objects).
A difference between the higher resolution spectral modes of Michelle and the low resolution modes (and all T-ReCS spectroscopy) is that the higher resolution Michelle observations are carried out without chopping, but only using nodding along the slit to subtract the atmospheric background, as is the case for near-infrared observations. T-ReCS spectroscopy and the low resolution Michelle N-band or Q-band spectroscopy are carried out with chopping and nodding.
The Reduction Process
Several steps are needed in the reduction. All of these steps are included in the msreduce task in the midir package. The parameters of this task include many flags (the fl_ parameters) for either turning these steps on or off, where they are optional, or for whether the steps are done automatically or not. It turns out that a few of the steps either have to be done interactively or need "supervision" in case the automatic algorithms fail.
The msreduce task can be used in two ways. One can extract individual spectra without carrying out telluric corrections, if the fl_standard flag is "no". This produces a wavelength calibrated raw spectrum. Or one can extract the object and calibration spectra together and produce a wavelength calibrated and flux calibrated output spectrum, if the fl_standard flag is "yes". The flux calibration can be either absolute or relative depending upon the options chosen.
The only required parameter is the name of the raw data file for the object. If one is only extracting the raw spectrum without doing the telluric correction and calibration then no standard spectrum file needs to be specified. More usually one needs to give the name of the raw data file for the calibration standard (instd), set fl_standard to "yes". There are then two possibilities for how the calibration is carried out. If one sets the fl_blackbody flag to "yes" and specifies a temperature via the bbody parameter then the spectral shape of the calibration object will be assumed to follow that of a blackbody at the specified temperature. The alternative is to use a standard which has a known spectrophotometric energy distribution for the telluric correction, in which case along with correction for atmospheric effects an absolute flux level can be determined. If absolute calibration is to be carried out the name of the standard must be given in the stdname field. The spectrophotometric information for the TIMMI2 standards and for the large set of Cohen standards is available within the midir package. There are still two uncertainties about this type of absolute calibration: first the slit losses must be assumed to be the same for the standard as for the science target. Second, the calibration may be poor if the airmass match between the science target and the standard is not good enough, or if atmospheric conditions have changed during the observations.
In addition to these "operational" uncertainties, there is an "intrinsic" uncertainty in the use of the Cohen standards, which is that many of the stars do not have detailed photometric and spectroscopic observations in the mid-infrared, so the quality of any individual spectral template is generally not known. The number of very well characterized standards (i.e. alpha CMa, alpha Lyr, alpha Boo, and the other primary and secondary standards in the Cohen system) is small and these are not always accessible from either Gemini North or Gemini South. Hence these tertiary standards generally provide the only possibility of an absolute spectral calibration at these wavelengths.
In the blackbody case the resulting spectrum is of arbitrary intensity scaling, normalized to 1 at a specific wavelength (11 microns for the low resolution N-band spectrum case). In the case of absolute calibration the units of the output spectrum are determined by the outtype parameter. The default is to get frequency flux density in Jy in the output spectrum.
The outline of the steps in msreduce is as follows, where in parentheses the associated flag parameters of the task are listed:
- optionally, raw Michelle data can be corrected for the bias level and flat-fielded (fl_flat)
- processing of the raw data file to get stacked images for the sky and difference frames (fl_process)
- identification of sky lines for wavelength calibration; it generally is necessary to check the initial identifications even for low resolution spectra since the contrast between the lines and the continuum is strongly dependent on conditions (fl_wavelength)
- calculation of the wavelength solution for the entire field of view of the array (fl_transform)
- definition and tracing of the spectrum, using nsextract which in turn uses tasks from the apextract package (fl_extract)
- extraction of the wavelength calibrated raw spectrum
- defringing of the extracted spectra (fl_defringe)
- application of the telluric correction and the creation of a calibrated spectrum (fl_telluric)
These steps are discussed in detail in the following sections, and also in this worked Michelle Q band example.
Flat Fielding
To produce a flat: In spectroscopic mode flats are produced by taking spectra of either (a) the instrument cover of the primary mirror (in 2005B) or of a surface inside Michelle's calibration unit (starting in 2006A). These observations are taken in stare mode, along with a bias frame, and the files have only one extension which contains the flat or bias image. The raw "flat" frame is actually very nearly a blackbody spectrum at the ambient temperature of the dome/instrument when the observation was taken. If the fl_flat flag is set then the names of the raw data files for the flat-field spectrum and the bias frame need to be defined as the flat and bias. The msflatcor task then takes these two files as input and creates a normalized flat, which is then applied to the science data by (1) subtracting the bias level off the raw images, and (2) dividing the resulting image by the normalized flat image. An "f" is prefixed to the original file name at this stage.
For spectra of point sources it appears that the flat fielding does not make an appreciable difference in the results. It is for extended sources where the flat fielding correction is potentially important, since the spectrum for the source and for the standard may come from very different parts of the array.
The flat fielding is applied to the raw data files, before any stacking or differencing of the images is carried out.
The Initial Processing
This refers to the process of taking the raw (or flatfielded) data file, something like "N20060108S0120.fits", and carrying out the initial processing that is needed for all mid-IR observations. This involves using the mprepare/tprepare and mistack tasks. For spectroscopy in addition to stacking up the difference frames one also needs to stack up the source frames to make a sky spectrum image which is used for the wavelength calibration. Three output files result from this step: the "prepared" raw data file, prefixed with "m" or "t", the stacked difference file, prefixed with "r", and the stacked sky spectrum file, prefixed with "a".
Once the initial processing is done then this step need not be re-done as long as the "a" and "r" files are present in the current directory.
Line Identification
This step needs to be done interactively in most cases as the lines that are marked by the automatic process are usually wrong. The sky spectrum is used for this purpose since arc spectra cannot normally be taken in the N-band or in the Q-band. The nswavelength task in the gnirs package is used in this step, which in turn calls the identify task in the NOAO package.
There is a default line list file for low resolution N-band and Q-band spectroscopy in the "data" directory of the gnirs package. These "lines" are blends or band features in some cases. For example, the 9.503 micron peak of the ozone band can be used to calibrate lowN spectroscopy. At very high resolution, as with the Michelle echelle mode, many individual lines are seen, but at the moment there is no list of all of these lines.
The extent to which the lines/bands stand out from the general sky emission is a strong function of the conditions, especially the water vapour column along the line of sight, and also depends strongly on the slit width used. Below are shown a few examples of spectra at the line identification stage of msreduce. Initially one has to check the line IDs that are automatically done when the task starts, and then usually clear all the IDs with the "i" key and start again.
The following are the line wavelengths, in Angstroms, for the lines that are used with the low resolution spectroscopy modes:
74670 Sky 78750 Sky 85140 Sky 88020 Sky 95030 Sky 102600 Sky 117280 Sky 128770 Sky
175860 Sky 182980 Sky 186480 Sky 190150 Sky 193100 Sky 198900 Sky 203220 Sky 206530 Sky 211750 Sky 218550 Sky 225950 Sky 229410 Sky 231990 Sky
Now here are some screen shots:
(1) Narrow slit/dry conditions at Mauna Kea:
Using a narrow (2-pixel) slit increases the resolution and reduces the background level. In this case eight of the nine N-band "lines" are found automatically, which is enough to get a good solution. The marked lines are listed in the table below. The "wavelength" is the fitted wavelength value, while the "Line ID" column gives the nominal line wavelength. Both these values are in Angstroms.
The wavelength values listed above are for a central wavelength of 10.5 microns, which was the default value until the fall of 2008. Due to the bad channel in Michelle the low-N spectroscopy default central wavelength has been set to 9.5 microns to move the entire spectrum to the right on the array to avoid the bad channel. This shifts the atmospheric lines by about +37 pixels.
pixel wavelength Line ID ----------------------------------- 47.78 74619.2101 74670. 63.93 78813.4841 78750. 88.50 85166.8354 85140. 99.62 88033.285 88020. 126.45 94941.4424 95030. 156.33 102622.713 102600. 213.27 117303.511 117280. 257.31 128759.52 128770.
(2) Worse Mauna Kea conditions, and a wider slit:
With a wider slit the effective wavelength resolution is reduced, and in wetter conditions the contrast between the lines and continuum is reduced (note e.g. the marked difference in the ozone band). This makes finding the various "lines" much more difficult. These spectra were taken one after the other but one sees a difference in the number of "lines" that can be located.
This observation used the four pixel slit and was at lower airmass than the observation shown above.
For this spectrum only five of the "lines" could be identified.
pixel wavelength Line ID ----------------------------------- 26.88 74568.0089 74670. 43.82 78907.1222 78750. 106.18 94944.751 95030. 192.82 117330.486 117280. 237.00 128749.632 128770.
For this spectrum seven of the "lines" could be identified.
pixel wavelength Line ID ----------------------------------- 26.98 74579.809 74670. 43.69 78800.4521 78750. 69.21 85325.1787 85140. 106.14 94888.4792 95030. 135.37 102506.004 102600. 192.75 117419.864 117280. 237.03 128720.213 128770.
In general one just has to try to locate the "lines" and get a consistent wavelength solution with only small residuals. The 95030 Angstrom and 78750 Angstrom bands are always easily located, so in the worst case one can use these to define a linear wavelength scale. The 117280 Angstrom band is the next easiest feature to locate.
(3) Q-band spectroscopy:
In the Q-band the atmospheric bands are stronger than at N. The features chosen for the identification are all peaks of bands, and in the resulting raw extracted spectrum these peaks become minima. The only good thing about this is that all 13 features are always present in the spectra, exactly as listed above.
pixel wavelength Line ID ----------------------------------- 61.83 175780.171 175860. 83.68 182971.936 182980. 94.70 186596.989 186480. 105.69 190216.019 190150. 114.53 193123.953 193100. 131.93 198851.61 198900. 145.20 203220.359 203220. 155.23 206521.998 206530. 170.89 211676.384 211750. 191.69 218524.299 218550. 213.93 225844.891 225950. 224.97 229478.821 229410. 232.82 232062.571 231990.
At higher spectroscopic resolution the lines that can be identified are different than those listed above. However we do not have a definitive line list for every mode and wavelength range. In these cases, PIs may wish to work with their contact scientist to identify the atmospheric lines.
Finding the Wavelength Transformation
After the initial identification of lines the tasks then seek to identify the same lines in spectral sections from other parts of the sky spectrum, since the sky fills the slit from top to bottom. In most cases this re-identification can be done automatically. There are rare cases where the automatic re-identification fails and then it must be re-done interactively. Once the lines have been identified over the image, a transformation is calculated from pixel position to wavelength. This is applied to the spectrum when it is extracted in the next step.
Extracting the Raw Spectrum
The next step is to extract the spectrum. This is done using the standard routines in the NOAO twodspec package, specifically the apall task. One first marks the region to be extracted from a cut across the difference spectrum, and then traces this across the dispersion direction. Normally for brighter objects this is routine.
One should normally set the fl_extract flag to "yes" in order to examine the tracing. Usually the points at the left and right ends of the spectrum are not reliable and should be removed from the tracing. Spectra from Michelle or T-ReCS do not change position very much over the detector (usually 1 pixel or so) and the tracing of the spectrum should be close to linear. If either of these things is not the case from the automatic tracing, points need to be excluded until a reasonable tracing is obtained. An example of a reasonable fit is shown below. Note the points that were deleted at left and at right.
The reason why the tracing is lost at left (short wavelengths) and at right (long wavelengths) is that there are strong water bands in these regions. Unless the conditions are exceptionally dry these regions, wavelengths of less than 7 microns or of more than 13 microns, suffer from too much absorption to be used at this low resolution.
Given that the aperture is 6 pixels wide a linear fit would have been just as good as the slightly curved fit that is shown here.
Defringing the Spectrum
Michelle and T-ReCS spectra are sometimes subject to fringing. At high resolution the fringing is nearly always present but for low resolution spectra the fringing may not be seen, depending on the slit width. The fringes can generally be identified via fourier analysis and removed. This is an interactive step in the reductions, if requested, because finding the correct filter in the fourier domain is not something that can be automated.
An example of a badly fringed T-ReCS spectrum is shown below. When the msdefringe task is called it carries out a fourier transform of the input spectrum and initially plots the real and imaginary parts as a function of frequency bin. For a low resolution spectrum only the highest frequency component needs to be removed. One has the option of setting the range of components that are to be removed, and these can either be set to zero or be replaced by an interpolated value from the end points. Another option that is available is to screen out all negative values to zero, This is not always a good idea. If all the "real" structure in the spectrum is positive then this works well, but if the baseline level is slightly offset to negative values due to a drift in the sky background during an observation then it will not work properly.
The following screen shots show the process of defringing a spectrum.
The original spectrum
The fourier plot. The white curve is the real part, and the red curve is the imaginary part. One usually looks for the fringes in the real part.
A zoomed view of the high frequency part of the plot. The white line indicates the filtered values for the real and imaginary parts. In this case both are set to zero.
Once one exits from the fourier domain plot with the "q" key the next plot comes up: the original and defringed spectra. If the defringing has removed real structure, this is where one should reset with the "r" key or choose to exit without defringing using the "i" key.
Here is the output defringed spectrum by itself.
If the defringed spectrum has lost its baseline level the plot of the "before" and "after" spectra looks like this--
where the red curve is the "corrected" spectrum, but it does not have the correct base level. This is the result of masking out negative values when the baseline in the original spectrum is slightly negative. If such a behavior is seen, the only option is to run msdefringe manually outside of msreduce and then run the telluric correction/calibration step afterward.
Calibrating the Spectrum
This step is done with the msabsflux task. It in turn calls the telluric task in the NOAO onedspec package. In most cases it is wise to carry out this step interactively, since the automatically found "best" spectrum often is not actually what is wanted, especially for low resolution spectra. This is typically due to having large regions of little or no signal in the source and calibration spectra. Noise in these regions produces absurdly large signals in the resultant spectrum which severely skew the chi-squared minimization used in telluric to find the optimum shift between the two spectra.
In view of this problem the first thing one should do in running the task interactively is to window the plot to exclude the long and short wavelength regions with little or no signal. Typically that is wavelengths longer than 13 microns and wavelengths shorter than 7.5 microns.
One way to proceed is to set :offset 0. and :dscale 0. so only one "output" spectrum is plotted in the upper panel. A scaling can usually be found that shows the proposed output spectrum fairly well. Then one needs to search the parameter space to get a good output spectrum.
It is generally best to change the shift value with the :shift command. It appears that the shifts are usually small, so starting at zero and then checking values slightly positive and negative from there is usually helpful. The main goal is to choose a shift that removes the ozone feature as well as possible. Wrong shifts cause the edges of the band to no longer match leaving a residual feature that tends to show up at around 9.3 to 9.6 microns.
The following screen shots show the initial plot screen, the plot screen once the wavelength range has been restricted somewhat, and then the plot screen when the shift has been set to 0 pixels. In this case having no shift produces a nice, smooth output spectrum over the region seen in the plot. This is the spectrum of an asteroid so what is seen is something that is very close to a 217 K blackbody shape.
Initial plot, with the -1.40 pixel shift found by the telluric task:
After changing the range and setting offset, dscale to 0.0:
With a shift of 0.0 pixels:
If a simple shift is not enough to get rid of the ozone feature then one can try to change the scale value. This should be done with caution.
The final calibrated spectrum, with fluxes in Jy, is shown below. This spectrum of Vesta was taken near opposition; it rises steeply to longer wavelengths and is generally very bright over the entire N-band window.
Last update 2006 July 18; Rachel Mason, based on original pages by Kevin Volk.


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While serving as co-facilitator for the Male Caregivers sessions at PHA's International Conference in Houston, I was asked about the "tactics" I used as a caregiver to cope with certain situations. It caused me to think about the 11-year journey I've been on with my wife Debbie. My path to being on the facilitator side of the session table has been "twisty" at best and is still evolving. This caregiver role is a stressful job.
Coping with My Wife's Diagnosis
My reaction to the "imminent death" diagnosis was probably like most other caregivers: shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Some may recognize these emotions as the classic stages described in the work of author Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying. Looking back, I had them all; I just didn't know that was the emotional minefield I was traversing at the time – and still am! After all, I'm a guy; we don't talk about things like that (at least not easily). To quote my friend Carl Hicks, "This is a trail of tears we're on. They can be happy or sad ones." I realize now that through all my stages, there was always an element of hope that things would get better. That's even more so now. The PHA conferences always replenish that part of my soul that clings to "hope."
I weathered my initial shock and denial by immersing myself in learning about the disease. When the anger phase hit, I wanted to fight back. If I was hoping for a cure, then I could help with raising money for research. Fundraising was how I turned my hope into an action verb!
Along the way I've done my fair share of "mental bargaining" with my higher power — and probably always will as long as this journey continues. A few years into the journey while watching a news story on the signs of depression, I realized the interviewer could be talking about me. I think I might have even gotten angry with myself for thinking I could be "depressed" and, therefore, WEAK. I didn't have time to be weak and sick. So I educated myself on the signs of depression and developed some personal coping activities. I plan (and occasionally accomplish) home improvement projects. I draft mystery book plots. I regularly take "alone" time for myself. I have a weekly golf outing at Debbie's insistence.
The Acceptance Phase
The acceptance phase is the really nice place to be. Your attitude (and hers) is the key to successfully coping with the illness. As the caregiver, you have to come to understand how the "patient" wants to deal with his or her condition and adjust your style and personality to best provide support without losing your own identity. Your significant other — the patient — will change how he or she copes with the situation over time. So you've got to be on your toes and ready to "go with the flow." The change on their part may be gradual, quick or like an electrical sine wave: up/down, up/down. Always remember: good days, bad days.
Literature approved for the Narcotics Anonymous program titled In Times of Illness carries a useful message for the caregiving situation: "Learn to accept the reality of life, which sometimes brings illness or injury. Illness is very stressful. Coming to terms with illness is a process … Acceptance of something does not necessarily mean we like it. We can dislike something and still accept it."
Debbie is more succinct in her explanation of accepting the reality of the situation. She asks, "Do you view yourself as a victim or as a survivor?" A victim lets other people or circumstances define them and tell them how to live their life. A survivor decides to live their life despite the limitations that have been put upon them. Remember I said the key is attitude: the caregiver's and the patient's. Debbie is a survivor. Pulmonary hypertension does not define her. It's a part of the picture to deal with, but not the whole picture. She still has goals and strives for a happy and productive life. Her attitude makes my job as caregiver that much easier — no piece of cake, but easier.
Seeking Out Support
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1. Educate yourself about your loved one's condition and how to communicate effectively with doctors.
2. Watch out for signs of depression, and don't delay in getting professional help when you need it.
3. Grieve for your losses, and then allow yourself to dream new dreams.
4. Seek support from other caregivers. There is great strength in knowing you are not alone.
5. When people offer to help, accept the offer and suggest specific things that they can do.
Every job, including your "job" as a caregiver, comes with its own set of stressors. But every job also comes with support systems. One of my first jobs as a teenager was delivering newspapers for the Temple Daily Telegram. The stressors: getting up early every day to deliver my route by 6 a.m.; working in the rain, cold, dark and sleet; dealing with loose dogs (I remember some very big, fast dogs); and collecting the monthly bills from more than 200 customers. The support systems: papers were delivered to my pick-up point by 3:30 a.m., bills were mailed to the customer by the end of the month, I had a list of substitute carriers I could call at the last minute if I was unable to perform my deliveries.
I joined the U.S. Air Force in 1968. I retired 26 years and two wars later, and you can well imagine that the stressors associated with that career would fill a book. All along the way there were support systems for training, administration, logistics, operations. No company trains and supports the worker like Uncle Sam.
The point: every job has its support systems and so does this caregiver role. Learn them and use them to make your journey a little less twisted than mine. Most areas have community and social organizations that can be helpful. Numerous caregiver organizations are on the web. Contact PHA or just review the ton of information on its website. You'll start to develop your own framework for developing coping strategies. I know that guys don't like to talk about these things or share with others, but when you get bold enough (as I hope you will), reach out to others in your situation. Learn about the support systems for this caregiver job and use them.
Every job has its rewards. For you that may be vacations or time off, hobbies or volunteer activities, certain foods, sporting events. Some of my coping mechanisms are also my rewards. Develop a list of events and activities that you feel are rewarding; then pay yourself regularly. It makes the job easier and the journey a little less rocky.
By Jim Wilson, PH caregiver and PH Email Mentor. Contact a PH Email Mentor
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