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Moving Daze
This week we moved our corporate offices, lock stock and
barrel, to a new location across town. I have been
simultaneously looking forward to and dreading this move.
Looking forward to the move because the space is perfectly
suited to our needs and dreading the move due to the obvious
efforts that goes into relocating cast and crew after six
years in one location. “Oh, that’s where my favorite coffee
mug was hiding.” I was determined to throw out at least half
of what I brought over to the new office and maybe I came
close to that mark.
It was great to delve through the 11 years of archives
and relive some of the firsts of the magazine, the first
poem sent by a family caregiver, the poster for the first
conference, the first cover mock-ups. And it occurred to me
that as much as I dreaded facing the efforts associated with
packing, tossing, boxing, painting, cleaning, and moving, I
was also overcome with a mixture of excitement and remorse
as I closed the lights on the old location.
It was certainly time to move on to a bigger and better
location, but as I flipped that switch for the very last
time, I could hear the echoes of the years of
laughter, work and family we created in this location as we
produced each issue of the magazine, took phone calls from
family caregivers in need and worked long into the night
meeting unrelenting deadlines. We are already in
full swing at the new office and I look forward to
continuing our supportive work in these new and certainly
better surroundings. Maybe that’s the thing about change,
even good ones are not always easy to face.
Take care
Gary Barg
Editor-in-Chief
gary@caregiver.com
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One Miraculous Organ
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Perhaps the well-known song expresses it best. “Let’s start at
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Does anyone
know of a large size pill
organizer that is closable, but
not lockable? I'm looking for
something that will hold 2 weeks
worth of meds for my mother that
will close as she's forever
dropping her current organizer
(the old plastic teeny-weeny
boxes type). She enjoys being
independent and is slowly losing
more and more of it. Being able
to be in control of her own meds
is important to her, but I worry
about all these dropped pills.
I've seen the ones available
from various dealers here on the
net, but none are really big
enough to handle the frightening
array of meds that she takes
daily.
Thanks for the help. Best of
luck to you all.
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