In the year 2000, my father finished his journey through mortality. There is not a day I do not miss him. The last nine years of his life, I had the privilege of caring for him. Shortly after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he suffered a massive stroke and remained paralyzed from the neck down, unable to speak, and dependent on me for his most basic needs for the remainder of his life. Keeping a full time job and caring for my father, stretched me physically, emotio