{"id":138894,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/138894-i-sit-here","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/138894","headline":"I Sit Here","content":"I sit here\r\nalone, without you,\r\nin our home\r\nof many years.\r\nYou have gone\r\nto a memory care\r\nfacility, to be\r\nattended to.\r\nI have visited\r\nevery day,\r\nexcept the lockdown,\r\nwhen the facility\r\nwas closed, due to\r\na Covid, positive result.\r\nEvery day,\r\nwhen I see you,\r\nI'm asked, \"are you my husband?\"\r\nand you say, \"I haven't seen you\r\nin a long time.\"\r\nYet, you cried when I\r\ntold you Good Night,\r\nwhen I left,\r\nat 9 PM.\r\nMy emotions are raw.\r\nMy guilt, I feel,\r\nas this part of life\r\nis torture and pain,\r\nno matter how I \r\ntry to rationalize.\r\nForgive me please.","content_plain":"I sit here\r\nalone, without you,\r\nin our home\r\nof many years.\r\nYou have gone\r\nto a memory care\r\nfacility, to be\r\nattended to.\r\nI have visited\r\nevery day,\r\nexcept the lockdown,\r\nwhen the facility\r\nwas closed, due to\r\na Covid, positive result.\r\nEvery day,\r\nwhen I see you,\r\nI'm asked, \"are you my husband?\"\r\nand you say, \"I haven't seen you\r\nin a long time.\"\r\nYet, you cried when I\r\ntold you Good Night,\r\nwhen I left,\r\nat 9 PM.\r\nMy emotions are raw.\r\nMy guilt, I feel,\r\nas this part of life\r\nis torture and pain,\r\nno matter how I \r\ntry to rationalize.\r\nForgive me please.","published_at":"2022-02-10T09:25:27-08:00","updated_at":"2022-06-02T15:12:21-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos 365. View their post published Feb/10/2022 on Life Stories - Memories. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":19,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/138894-i-sit-here","headline":"I Sit Here","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2022-02-10T09:25:27-08:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":19}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Life Stories - Memories","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/1002-life-stories-memories"}]}}