A Caregiver’s Perspective

My wife Cherie and I have been married for almost 34 years and God has blessed us with five sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren. In a certain sense you could say that we are living what has been our dream ever since our dating days, although how we got here—and I am sure what lies ahead as well—was far from what we had planned. “No plan survives first contact,” is, I believe, a military phrase that I think aptly applies to the plans that we so carefully construct for our lives....