{"id":23735,"date":"2020-04-27T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/peter-rosenberger-coronavirus-as-a-caregiver-for-30-years-i-know-healing-power-of-this-one-thing\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:22:21","slug":"peter-rosenberger-coronavirus-as-a-caregiver-for-30-years-i-know-healing-power-of-this-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/peter-rosenberger-coronavirus-as-a-caregiver-for-30-years-i-know-healing-power-of-this-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Rosenberger: Coronavirus \u2014 As a caregiver for 30 years, I know healing power of this one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.\u00a0\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;\u201d Ecclesiastes<\/a> 3:4<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAre your caregiving duties different as you now care for your wife, Gracie, with the COVID-19<\/a> virus?\u201d A reporter asked me that in a video interview recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell \u2026she won\u2019t keep her hands off me, and that\u2019s a problem!\u201d\u00a0 I replied<\/a> with one eyebrow raised.<\/p>\n

PAUL BATURA: AMID CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, LOOK FOR THESE MESSAGES OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

She was truly speechless at my response.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you laugh given what you all live through!?\u201d<\/p>\n

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We often hear that question when people learn of our 30-plus\u00a0years through a medical nightmare. From Gracie\u2019s 80\u00a0surgeries (including both legs amputated) to multiple emboli, bouts with MRSA, severe chronic pain, and now the COVID-19, Gracie and I are no stranger to brutal realities. Yet, we\u2019ve discovered joy, strength, and even humor in often dire challenges.<\/p>\n

If laughter is the best medicine, then comedians need to step up production as much Mike Lindell\u2019s pillow factory.<\/p>\n

Humor heals, and laughter is permitted \u2014 even in pain, loss\u00a0and sorrow. If you doubt it, watch John Cleese eulogize Graham Chapman. Ask Jay Leno to tell you the story of standing at Rodney Dangerfield\u2019s deathbed. Or ask my wife.<\/p>\n

Once while getting a manicure, the busy manicurist said to Gracie, \u201cYou\u2019re a pretty lady, you should a get a pedicure!\u201d<\/p>\n

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When you exchange your misery for just a few minutes of laughter per day, watch how your life changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gracie looked her incredulously and blurted out, \u201cI don\u2019t have any feet!\u201d<\/p>\n

Without missing a beat, the distracted manicurist said, \u201cOK, maybe next time!”<\/p>\n

Gracie herself howls with laughter when she tells that story.<\/p>\n

While we may never feel better about the heartache of this virus or any of the challenges we face, we\u2019re going to get through this. In doing so, we\u2019ll discover \u201cfeeling better\u201d can\u2019t be our highest goal. The goal is to BE better.<\/p>\n

Part of being better, is to offload the stress, heartbreak\u00a0and pain with a sense of humor. The tears flowing down our cheeks often dry with the smile of a lighter heart.<\/p>\n

A sense of humor can detach from heartache without detaching from the person. Like most caregivers, I possess a painfully serious side. Yet intense situations and somberness often need a release. Humor helps.<\/p>\n

But humor doesn\u2019t have to be a defense mechanism, nor belittling at someone else\u2019s expense.\u00a0Rather than living in the punchline, the healing power of humor is that it\u2019s a lifeline to a bright blue sky above the dark clouds of heartache.<\/p>\n

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When Gracie\u2019s COVID-19 symptoms appeared, the nurse and physician asked us to meet them in the hospital and asked, \u201cDo you have a mask to wear?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do \u2026 it\u2019s a Darth Vader mask, but that\u2019s kind of personal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearing the nurse laugh on the phone, Gracie also chuckled at that one \u2014 even with a fever and feeling sick.<\/p>\n

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Take time to watch a funny movie, listen to standup comedians, read a funny book. When you exchange your misery for just a few minutes of laughter per day, watch how your life changes.<\/p>\n

Every caregiver will admit the tears are never in short supply. But the inventory of laughter remains scarcer than a roll of Charmin at Walmart. Humor can not only help the healing process with the patient but also for the caregiver \u2014 as well as the country.<\/p>\n

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