Galen Warden
Mining the Nerve
Today I'm writing about telling our story, because this is an important moment in my journey with James. We had a very emotional day...
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Galen Warden
- Feb 2
- 10 min
Too Sick for Help?
Getting a bed-bound person to the doctor should not be impossible.
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Galen Warden
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
#Winning, a Mother's Story
Caring for a Severe ME son requires battling monsters, especially your own.
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Galen Warden
- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
What is Life?
When you can no longer do anything that made you "you," what does Life mean?
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Galen Warden
- Oct 28, 2022
- 10 min
A Kick in the Teeth
Basic needs, like dental care, are ignored for bed-bound severely ill patients until it's an emergency. And then you wait.
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Galen Warden
- Sep 11, 2022
- 12 min
Severe ME Communications
A guide to understanding and communicating with severe Long Covid and ME sufferers with few or no words.
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Galen Warden
- Sep 8, 2022
- 6 min
Toileting in the Bed
Seeing the effort and difficulty, the PEM, I should have begun toileting him in the bed sooner. But I had no guidance like this.
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Galen Warden
- Aug 29, 2022
- 7 min
Crash Prevention
The most urgent thing you can do to prevent someone with Mild ME/CFS or Long Covid from becoming as severely ill as my son James, who is...
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Galen Warden
- Aug 8, 2022
- 4 min
A Journal of James
This is a chapter from a forthcoming memoir chronicling my experience as I care for my adult son, James Strazza, with Very Severe ME/CFS.
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Galen Warden
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
Sugar-Free Salty-Sweet Granola Bars
Homemade Granola Bars are delicious and healthy with no added sugar or sweeteners.
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Galen Warden
- Aug 4, 2020
- 6 min
Through the Clouds
Flying with my dad was my introduction to being present, to finding beauty in an otherwise frustrating situation.
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Galen Warden
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min
Pain Has a Love Language
Pain is its own language
Members only may oblige
With a response.
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Bring Your "A" Game
I bring my A Game into the room. Into the dark I bring my quiet. No talking: A new language to memorize, practice, repeat. Conversation...
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Your Body Speaks
Your urine is my urine now. Odor that no longer offends Becomes my odor. We are one. Your holy shit is my sacred duty Evidence of the...
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Bath
Burnout terrifies me. (There is no one else.) I sink into a just-hot-enough fragrant sea and lower Spent arms, breathing and freeing my...
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Jump
Mini-rebellions: One more Scrabble turn A trip to the bathroom A long pause to daydream He needs me. Is it urgent? The text did not say....
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Rain
Six hours. The balm of rest A salve on my brittle, tired mind. A lullaby patters on my window Tiny dancers relay Spring’s promises in...
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Two A.M.
Two a.m. Too little sleep. Move like a dream. Dream of sleep. Float like a ghost. Slow like a boat, Too little breath in these sails of...
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
Teeth
Impossibly foreign, the first time The cave opens only slightly for me and I close my eyes to feel more keenly with Helen Keller’s love....
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Galen Warden
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
In One Small Room
The natural world joins my bed-bound son in his isolation.
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