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 Another kind of grief           BY THE TIME we reach middle age, most of us have lived through the death of a loved one. When each loss occurs, we learn something about the process of handling death and grief as a part of life.     Although I’d experienced that kind of grief before, nothing prepared me for the sorrow I experienced when my wife broke her back for the second time and had to quit work. I didn’t even recognize the torrent of emotions like grief.      I knew about the grieving stages first outlined by psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (in her 1969 book On Death and Dying), but I didn’t think her theory applied to me as a caregiver whose spouse was still alive. Though the stages—anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—are most often associated with death. I learned that Kubler-Ross applied them to any catastrophic event in a person’s life. And anyone who has a family member with a degenerating genetic ailment knows how catastrophic that is.      In

                                                      FEBRUARY 2022 NEWSLETTER Robert Lindenberger 3325 3 rd Ave. Mims, FL 32754. 321-368-7184 expas6 5@yahoo.com                                                                            HEART CHECK                                                                        H . . . Am I Hurting?                E . . .  Am I Exhausted?                                                                        A . . .  Am I angry?                                                                        R . . .  Do I resent?                                                                        T . . .  Am I Tense              February is a good month for me. I was born on the third day, the first time but born again on 12/5/55 – 20 years later. Both birthdays are special to me; the first put me in the category of Over-the-Hill gang. The second was a new beginning, and old things pass away; all things become new. Oh, how