Tag: #ageing

• Journey to healing: ‘Being Mortal’ by Dr. Atul Gawande

  

  I had no idea how reading ‘Being Mortal- Medicine and what matters in the end’ would help me. The book was suggested to me by blogger, author GS. Subbu, after dad passed away. A line from the book mentioned in GS. Subbu’s review made me want to pick it up – “It is not death […]

  Smitha V

  January 4, 2021

  Book Review, Experiences

  #ageing, #atulgawande, #beingmortal, #caregivers, #dealingwithloss, #death, #doctors, #healing, #life, #medicine, #parents, #terminallyill, #truth

• PUBLISHED : When we can do nothing else, we wait

  

  My poem, ‘When there’s nothing you can do, you wait,’ is published by the Rebelle Society. This poem is for all those who have waited at some point in life. You know what you went through as you waited for the minutes and hours to pass. And though you told yourself that you had no […]

  Smitha V

  November 24, 2020

  Experiences, Poetry

  #ageing, #ageingparents, #belief, #expectations, #faith, #hope, #inspiration, #life, #musing, #philosophy, #truth, #waiting

• HELPLESS

  

  I visit the senior home- there is a cage in the basement with parakeets that greet and potted plants in the hallway. The walls are pink and cheery and the floors are clean and shiny The air smells like the pool and the hospital – Chlorine and Dettol I take the lift upstairs to where […]

  Smitha V

  November 21, 2020

  Poetry

  #ageing, #empathy, #father, #guilty, #life, #oldage, #oldparents, #poemsonlife, #truth, #youth

• Published – Daddy I’m Not as strong as you

  

  I’m happy to say my poem ‘Daddy I’m not as strong as you’ has been published by SpillWords Press. I have attached a link of the poem below. Please read and rate the poem and share your comments on it. Copyright2020. smithavishwanathsblog.com. All Rights Reserved.

  Smitha V

  September 15, 2020

  Poetry

  #ageing, #anguish, #dad, #dadsanddaughters, #father, #love, #poetryonrelationships, #spillwordspress

• A short story : Jane and Joe

  

  “Did you sleep well?” he asked concerned “Yes I did.” “How are you feeling now?” “I’m much better. Please don’t worry,” she said, her voice soft “How can I not worry? I am your son.” “Son?” she asked confused. “You must go and rest. You just got discharged from the hospital yesterday,” he continued ignoring […]

  Smitha V

  August 14, 2020

  Creative Writing

  #ageing, #alzheimers, #dementia, #fiction, #growingold, #love, #marriage, #oldage, #people, #shortstory, #writing