{"id":29,"date":"2024-06-30T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2024-06-30T20:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T20:59:22","slug":"about-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/about-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"About my brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I briefly mentioned my brother’s health issues.\u00a0 Scott went in on June 6 for a routine hernia repair surgery, and came out with several cognitive issues.\u00a0 His son is attempting to gain guardianship of some sort, but it is all expensive.\u00a0 \u00a0My sisters have created a GoFundMe to help offset some of the initial costs involved.\u00a0 If you know my brother and want to help, this is where to help<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott’s son Daniel has made a couple trips to Phoenix.\u00a0 Scott recognized him last weekend at the rehab hospital, but after Scott was moved to the long-term care home, he didn’t recognize Daniel today.\u00a0 I’m not sure if that is a permanent loss of memory of his son or just part of the adjusting, where he may remember his son one day but not another.\u00a0 I am very unfamiliar with how this sort of mental decline manifests, but it is troubling to me to know that the brother I’ve known all my life isn’t “there” any more.\u00a0 His face is the same, his body is there, but his mind is not the same.<\/p>\n

And while his son is getting a handle on the logistics for his care, I am discovering how very much I Do Not Want to end up in a similar situation.\u00a0 And that’s putting me in a weird state of mind.\u00a0 I know my body isn’t what it used to be, and age is definitely showing.\u00a0 But my mind still feels sharp, I interact with people online, I do crosswords daily to keep my mind sharp, I walk when I can.\u00a0 \u00a0I need to pull out my little hand weights and exercise bands and start using them, as well as doing various dance steps and walking when the weather allows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I briefly mentioned my brother’s health issues.\u00a0 Scott went in on June 6 for a routine hernia repair surgery, and came out with several cognitive issues.\u00a0 His son is attempting to gain guardianship of some sort, but it is all expensive.\u00a0 \u00a0My sisters have created a GoFundMe to help offset some of the … Continue reading “About my brother”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}