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    A Fork in the Road: Wife, Caregiver, Widow
    A Fork in the Road: Wife, Caregiver, Widow
    A Fork in the Road: Wife, Caregiver, Widow
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    A Fork in the Road: Wife, Caregiver, Widow

    By Ruby Daggett

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    This book is about the different situations you encounter when you are a caregiver to your spouse. How so many obstacles can come against you, but also how you can meet each one with the help of the Holy Spirit, how he is there to comfort and guide you on the caregiver road and also on the widow's road. This will help you see that you are not the only one on this road that has a widow's brain. A term that many use when you think you are losing it. Surprisingly, there are so many that are going through the same thing you are going through. This will help you to get to that moment in your life to see that you might feel alone, but there is a lot of support for you in this wilderness moment. This will also show you how not to hold negative feelings over people's heads that should have done things but didn't do, but you can shake it off and continue to walk because you are not walking alone. This book will show you that when you are in your darkest, you can look and see a glimpse of light shining to lead you through the path that the Lord has for you. This book also has a one word getting through survival and help in making it into the next minute, second of the tough road. When you can't focus on reading a whole paragraph of anything, but you know if I just have one like a life donut to hold on to that will, do it for me. One word to tie me over, that's all I need to make it. A space you can put your notes. There is a little humor in the book because we need laughter; it is the medicine that we need right now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Faith Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateApr 27, 2021
    ISBN9781098078447
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      A Fork in the Road - Ruby Daggett

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      A Fork in the Road

      Wife, Caregiver, Widow

      Ruby Daggett

      Copyright © 2021 by Ruby Daggett

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

      Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

      832 Park Avenue

      Meadville, PA 16335

      www.christianfaithpublishing.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      From Wife to Caregiver and Widow

      The Eraser

      This book is about true facts of life as a wife, caregiver, and widow looking at the life of being with my husband Donnie as a strong backbone of his family. How life slowly drained him, a strong man to a man depending all on his wife, Ruby. The look of how he fought to keep his head above water and how his strength was always a struggle He learned how to stand on his prayers, and even though he wasn’t physically able to do work outside the home, he lifted his family up in prayer. He was determined not to burden down and hurt his family to the extent of burdening them. This shows that the beginning of his road of the stroke was an up and down road going in and out of rehabs. How a wife coped while being a caregiver and still working a full-time job. How the going back and forth to rehabs with no outside help from family or professionals. How the upheaval of how the insurance company tried to cut him off his disability. The final event of how a long-term wife of thirty-nine years had to put her husband to rest having to take a separate lonely road without the physical help of family. Noticing how widows are treated by family and friends. Have a rude awakening that things are not the same. That family members ignore you before death, and surely the same thing happens after death. How the strength of God sustained both Donnie and Ruby to get through a day.

      How Ruby didn’t know the strength she had until Donnie became weak by making household decisions. How Ruby stayed focused while her husband was deteriorating before her eyes. While keeping the faith and still keeping it moving. This is not an odd or abnormal lifestyle; widows across the country are dealing with being caregivers for their spouse. They pull up their big girl draws and push on; they have to focus on if not me, then who will help? The answer is no one usually. This is part of my healing that I needed to do to free my thoughts and mind and use this to help the new widows that are coming behind me to let them know you are not going crazy if you experience any of these experiences.

      How Do You Really Feel?

      I feel like me and other widows/widowers have been kicked to the side and ignored and not recognized so mainly I am writing this book to speak for the ones that can’t or won’t speak for themselves. Do I want pity? No, I don’t. What I do want people to know which I didn’t know is that the majority of this road have women in it, and once you are a member in this group, these women are so supportive and understanding. We are still here, we are still standing, it might have been an easier and less rockier road if the ones that was placed in our lives the same time our husband was placed in our life would simply care enough to pick up a phone or drop a text to see how you are doing would have helped. Now I have to release so I can heal because this is a new season and I have to keep it moving. This is four years now if you haven’t heard from them before, then stop looking. Moving on. That’s how I really feel.

      Disclaimer

      This synopsis of times thoughts are times with other widows, times observing others, or my thoughts of

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