{"id":260,"date":"2019-08-26T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T04:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2019-08-27T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:14:52","slug":"everyday-in-every-way-im-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inlifetherapy.com.au\/blog\/uncategorized\/everyday-in-every-way-im-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday In Every Way I’m Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memories are special. The ones you want to hold onto need to be filled with detail to lessen the chance of losing it.<\/p>\n

A good memory I have of one of my patients, and friend, is of an elderly gent sitting at his dining room table in a blue checked flannel shirt tightly tucked in, oxygen tubing stretched across his pale creased face, his side burns extra short from a recent \u201clowering of the ears\u201d ,the skin on these patches almost white. The hair combed back and still wet from grooming himself that morning. His face intently focused on the pen in his hand making sketching\u2019s in his pad of a horse in mid flight racing round the bend at a high stakes meet, all the while talking about his week, the incidences of daily life, the difficulties, the appointments, and then he pauses and looks up and with interest and intent in his eyes he says “And how are you?”<\/p>\n

Always asking about other’s stories and lives giving pearls of wisdom in the form of his own experiences, he had a focus on optimising his self improvement throughout the course of his chronic illness. He often shared and was deeply interested in the works of:<\/p>\n