"If I can get that one encouragement right. Just that one. It can last months"
He has two disabled daughters and together with his wife are full time carers. The situation is not good. Their decline shall be incremental. Yet each day is a battle to not give in. To wrestle with that desire to simply give up. Each day they wrestle. Some days are good. Some days...
When I asked how does they get through. He replied simply, encouragement.
I've heard this folklore story before and always enjoyed its sentiment and one which I know we, too, as a family have got through each day only through others' encouragement.
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