One spouse afflicted, Two spouses affected Reading Tips • To read in sequence, start with installment 01 in the list of links to the right. • Links for "Next," "Previous" and this "Directory" are provided on each page. About the writing This memoir began as self-imposed therapy, an attempt to organize and understand events during a thirty-year period of my life that I never got to process. It became a literary undertaking (e.g. creative non-fiction) when I realized that some of my memories of exactly who did what, when and where had faded. The core events and situations are genuine. The supporting characters are blended, in personality, actions and timing. Almost all of their names have been changed, and dialogue attributed to certain ones may not have been theirs or their exact words.       Portions of my therapy writing—events that did not hold a direct connection to my husband's diabetes but nevertheless additionally impacted my life and needed processing—are only briefly mentioned or not included in this work. Comment or Question?    Send Email to   HelenIngeborg   Terms of Use     ~ IMPORTANT!   Please read. ~ • Use of this Website is at your own risk • Reproduction of any part of this work, by any means, is prohibited without explicit written permission from its author, Helen Ingeborg © 2009-present   • No content within this memoir is meant or intended as medical advice—it is merely an account of our personal experiences as a couple living with diabetes • The viewer understands that this is a work-in-progress, any installment may be revised at any time, and will be re-written from installment one upon its completion to allow for the inclusion of events and or people important to the story but not recalled at the time of writing. • This is my personal Website. It is not interactive, but you are welcome to comment via my yahoo email account, linked above. No spam, please.

DIRECTORY 01 The Biggest Change 02 Finding Mike 03 The Hospital 04 The Five Minute Visit 05 One Small Miracle 06 The Iron Lung 07 Easter Sunday 08 Wake Up Freddie 09 My Future Starts 10 Tomorrow Comes (1) 11 Tomorrow Comes (2) 12 Plaster, Pain & Peeveishness 13 Temperatures Rise 14 Mixed Emotions 15 The Summer of '66 16 A Change of Plans 17 I Got a Job! 18 Good News, Bad News 19 A Good Day 20 Silver Swords (1) 21 Silver Swords (2) 22 Moving On (1) 22 Moving On (2) 22 Moving On (3) 22 Moving On (4) 23 Fun & Fortitude 24 Discovering Power PAGE UP

Back to Pinstripe Publishing 25 Company Cars 26 Moving Up 27 Sweet Deliverance 28 Just Carry On 29 What is it? 30 Room Service? 31 The Fem-Pops 32 Holiday Plans 33 The Standoff 34 The Vacation 35 Colorado 36 The Quandary 37 The Leak 38 Seeing Red 39 One February Day 40 The Horse 41 Dashes & Dreams 42 Dare I Dream?