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Member Experiences . . .

Well Spouse Association

Well Spouse Association Helps Kick Off National Family Caregivers Month

 
 National Family Caregivers Month, celebrated every November, is a nationally recognized time to thank, support, educate and empower more than 50 million family caregivers across the country currently providing over $375 billion in "free" caregiving services.  

             Top 10 Ways to Celebrate National Family Caregivers Month 2009

             President Obama's proclamation of National Family Caregivers Month 

            WSA President Larry Bocchiere on National Family Caregivers Month

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WSA Fundraising: Though Fall has arrived, we continue to receive donations for the Summer Appeal: Help us help you and other spousal caregivers! Please DONATE and/or JOIN the WSA or RENEW your membership.  The goal is to raise $20,000 to overcome this year’s deficit, and we have already passed the halfway mark! How do we help? Read Larry's Story [Click on Read More below]...              Prior to finding the WSA I was a poster child for clinical depression...     The 2009 WSA National Conference, Oct. 23-25, is now over. For a summary, please scroll down

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  2009 Annapolis HarborWSA Nat'l Conference Annapolis, MD 

The Conference --"A Safe Harbor for Caregivers" Oct. 23 - Oct. 25 is over now. It was very successful, attended by over 80 members -- Photos here, and See stories below: Impressions of A Conference Rookie;  2009 WSA Conference, Annapolis, MD.

We are looking for a location for next year's conference and volunteers on the spot to help organize the event. If you have a suggestion and are ready to help out, please EM the Office, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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 Impressions of A Conference Rookie – 2009 WSA Conference, Annapolis, MD

 

I hadn’t been out of the house for 10 years except for food shopping and my daughter’s wedding so I experienced some odd feelings as I drove to the conference.  It was very disorienting, I suppose like a prisoner free after 10 years behind bars. I also had the odd sensation that my wife was sitting next to me in the car. We were great road warriors in the old days, always driving on our vacations. We had been to all the states on the eastern seaboard.

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Fact: The Well Spouse Association...
is the only national organization focusing exclusively on the needs of all spouses caring for a chronically ill and/or disabled husband, wife, or partner.  Let others who have “been there and done that” help you face the challenges of long-term caregiving.

WSA Stories

Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience

Playing the Canada Card:

an American Caregiver's Experience

  By CEIL SINNEX Copyright © 2009 Ceil Sinnex             

 My husband John’s disease erupted like fireworks in the afternoon of my New Year’s Eve birthday seven years ago. I went out for the afternoon and returned home to find a stranger who only looked like John, talking gibberish and tearing our house apart at the seams. The siege lasted 16 hours.I thought of survival, not of Canada. As it turned out, survival and Canada would become one and the same.
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