Life's Lessons
One of the most painful things in life is to watch someone you love deteriorate right before your eyes. Not only do they undergo physical changes but they also undergo mental changes as well.
This book is for all those who are charged with the task of taking care of a parent and who have put their lives on hold to do so. Along the road there are frustrations but there are also benefits.
It is my hope that you gain some knowledge of techniques that I have used to help cope with the changes and that you are comforted in knowing you are not alone.
I know, because I did it. I watched my active father fight every day to deal with not being able to do what he wanted. I watched as the frustration built up and the anger took over. As he grew nearer to death, he was no longer my father. He was someone else and every day my mother and I had to face that other person. Every day we found creative ways to calm him and keep him busy.
This is not only my story of coping, it is a story to share with all.
-Charlotte Sanchez-Kosa
This book is for all those who are charged with the task of taking care of a parent and who have put their lives on hold to do so. Along the road there are frustrations but there are also benefits.
It is my hope that you gain some knowledge of techniques that I have used to help cope with the changes and that you are comforted in knowing you are not alone.
I know, because I did it. I watched my active father fight every day to deal with not being able to do what he wanted. I watched as the frustration built up and the anger took over. As he grew nearer to death, he was no longer my father. He was someone else and every day my mother and I had to face that other person. Every day we found creative ways to calm him and keep him busy.
This is not only my story of coping, it is a story to share with all.
-Charlotte Sanchez-Kosa
Encounters
My entry into ghost hunting stemmed from experiences that I had as a child growing up in my home. Back then, at the age of 12, I didn't understand that most of reported sightings could be explained logically. All I knew was as I sat sipping a bowl of soup, something that looked like a human-sized white light crossed from one corner of the room to the other.
Was I afraid? Yes. I remember making it a point to avoid that area of the house for many months. Sometime later, I was eating at the same table and saw the same light cross only this time it went the opposite direction. From then on, it seemed like my house was overrun with strange noises. In one instance, I was sitting late at night in the living room and could hear a bar stool creek as if someone was sitting on it and turn it. I also recall the TV turning on and off a couple of times.
I wasn't the only one to experience strange things. One night as my baby niece lay on the couch in the living room and I was lying in bed, I recall my mother hollering at me to not bother the baby. when I told her the next day that i had been in bed, she said that she had seen someone in white coming down the hallway.
After growing up and becoming a journalist, I took a hard look at what I thought I had experienced in my house. I found myself walking around and looking at the spots where I had seen the white figure move. I began rationalizing what may have happened. It could very well have been a car's headlights coming through the kitchen window at just the right angle. Maybe one of our dogs got under the stool and caused it to turn. The TV could also easily be explained by weak batteries in the remote. As for my mother's experience, I wasn't there to witness it so I can offer no explanation.
Little did I know it but my future was before me.
-Charlotte Sanchez-Kosa
Was I afraid? Yes. I remember making it a point to avoid that area of the house for many months. Sometime later, I was eating at the same table and saw the same light cross only this time it went the opposite direction. From then on, it seemed like my house was overrun with strange noises. In one instance, I was sitting late at night in the living room and could hear a bar stool creek as if someone was sitting on it and turn it. I also recall the TV turning on and off a couple of times.
I wasn't the only one to experience strange things. One night as my baby niece lay on the couch in the living room and I was lying in bed, I recall my mother hollering at me to not bother the baby. when I told her the next day that i had been in bed, she said that she had seen someone in white coming down the hallway.
After growing up and becoming a journalist, I took a hard look at what I thought I had experienced in my house. I found myself walking around and looking at the spots where I had seen the white figure move. I began rationalizing what may have happened. It could very well have been a car's headlights coming through the kitchen window at just the right angle. Maybe one of our dogs got under the stool and caused it to turn. The TV could also easily be explained by weak batteries in the remote. As for my mother's experience, I wasn't there to witness it so I can offer no explanation.
Little did I know it but my future was before me.
-Charlotte Sanchez-Kosa
