{"id":10726,"date":"2013-12-02T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2013-12-02T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T19:41:01","slug":"a-delicate-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10726","title":{"rendered":"A Delicate Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delicate balance<br \/>\nThere does seem to be<br \/>\nBetween what she sees<br \/>\nAnd reality<br \/>\nThe doctor did give<br \/>\nA pill that sure gave<br \/>\nMy wife hallucinations<br \/>\nAnd sure made her rave<br \/>\nAbout things that she heard<br \/>\nAnd things that she saw<br \/>\nThat really weren&#8217;t there<br \/>\nAnd all I did was compare<br \/>\nI went through this before<br \/>\nWith my grandmother, she<br \/>\nHad similar things occur<br \/>\nNow it is happening again,you see<br \/>\nThe last past few days<br \/>\nHave been for all of us you see<br \/>\nA trip yes through hell<br \/>\nOh but mostly you see<br \/>\nIt has been for my wife<br \/>\nA journey that she&#8217;d rather not take<br \/>\nAnd the rest of us home<br \/>\nWe just did try to make<br \/>\nYes make her as comfortable<br \/>\nAs comfortable as could be<br \/>\nBut it has not been very easy<br \/>\nYes easy to see<br \/>\nHow much crying she did<br \/>\nAnd asks why she must go through<br \/>\nAll of the hallucinations<br \/>\nThat she has been through<br \/>\nOh my friends, please do take<br \/>\nA few minutes to say<br \/>\nThat the doctors do find<br \/>\nYes do find a way<br \/>\nTo help her be better<br \/>\nSo that she can become<br \/>\nThe good mother and wife<br \/>\nThat the last few days has become<br \/>\nA person afraid of everything that she sees<br \/>\nYes please do say a prayer<br \/>\nAnd please say one for me<br \/>\nThat I can help her through this<br \/>\nAnd that it won&#8217;t make me<br \/>\nFeel that I can not cope<br \/>\nWith caring for she<br \/>\nShe constantly begs<br \/>\nThat I won&#8217;t put her in<br \/>\nA mental hospital because<br \/>\nShe says she would just not go in<br \/>\nBut imagine how hard<br \/>\nIt is to see and feel you<br \/>\nAre just not able to help<br \/>\nNo matter what that you do<\/p>\n<p> By ronald gainsford<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2001 Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delicate balance There does seem to be Between what she sees And reality The doctor did give A pill that sure gave My wife hallucinations And sure made her&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10726\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Delicate Balance<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}