Alison Acheson
1 min readOct 1, 2024

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I had a lengthy conversation about just this yesterday, with my mom. How far down the hole of meds does she want to go? She's beginning to show signs of side-effects. Where's the line? It's not visible. Yet seems important to try to articulate. I feel as if we'll have to talk our way through it.

Long ago I wrote a piece about this. After-the-fact, the "boundary" really made me think. I wish I'd set up things ahead. But it is so hard to see.

Maybe it's critical to remember/think that we CAN set up ideas...and change our minds down the line as things become clearer in the doing/living. As opposed to not thinking about it and blustering along. Until exhausted.

Good to recognize the family history. Not easy to live with what that might mean.

I will be thinking about you and your family, and praying. God bless, and peace.

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Alison Acheson
Alison Acheson

Written by Alison Acheson

Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS--caregiving memoir. My pubs here: LIVES WELL LIVED, UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS, and editor for WRITE & REVIEW.

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