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The Strangeness of Grief (2019)
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Re: The Strangeness of Grief (2019)
#52I’ve been lost to grief for the last several months - when I realised, finally, irrevocably, that my wife was never going to recover from the mental straitjacket she is now in. That the woman I married fifteen years ago no longer exists. Backstory: She went to hospital one day in March last year, she had hyponatremia (low sodium) and they gave her saline solution roughly twice as fast as recommended - they wanted to…
I honestly had no idea about the dangers of something so seemingly banal as saline solution being administered too quickly. Your comment made me read into it and yes, the reality is quite surprising, and scary. The strange thing is that higher concentration solution isn't so much a problem as administration speed for a given volume.
In any case, thank you for helping at least this one person learn about a danger they never would have expected if they're ever in a hospital, and I sincerely hope your wife comes back to her self over time. From what I've gone on to read, a certain high percentage of sufferers of Central pontine myelinolysis (if that's what you're describing) do eventually recover for the most part over the course of months.
Re: The Strangeness of Grief (2019)
#53"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go." Jamie Anderson Felix Revello de Toro - Woman, 1965
I appreciate this quote, but after looking into it, I must offer some correction regarding attribution. Félix Revello de Toro is a Spanish artist born in 1926. He specializes in portraits of women, including a 1965 one depicting a woman curled up on a chair with her head tilted down so as to permit her long black hair to hang down and obscure her face. Jamie Anderson is the author of the blog "All My Loose Ends". The…
Thanks for that, I actually don't know where I got that block of text but have been holding on to it for a while.