It’s been a month since I’ve posted here on the blog. Recently, so many days have been filled with doctor visits and hospital visits and rehab visits that it seemed there was nothing positive to write about. Nothing to celebrate. When caregiving is worrisome and heavy, I struggle to post it all here, because I […]
Dying and Living
As many of you know, Mom was hospitalized last month for a GI bleed and pneumonia. She recovered fairly well, and went home. Two weeks later, she was back in the hospital for pneumonia again. Two days later, she was moved to ICU because her O2 dropped and she would not rouse. So, we began […]
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Caregiving – When I Feel Like My Best is Not Enough
(I wrote this four years ago. After an emotional caregiving day with the folks yesterday, I began to write about it. Then I came across this post and realized I already had.) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Most people who check […]
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As a Caregiver, Two Things I Need to Remember (constantly)
As a caregiver, I had a rough evening with Mom this week. She’s 94 and has some dementia, and I help her shower. Tonight, she wasn’t very happy. She didn’t like something I bought her, she was impatient with the fact that I’ve not connected with her physical therapist yet (we keep missing each other), […]
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8 Things I’ve learned from Caregiving
At just over 50, I thought I was fairly grown-up. Until my dad had a stroke in 2008. That’s when I became a caregiver. And that’s when I realized I didn’t know much of anything. Anything of importance anyway. I’ve been helping my folks, 90 and 93, for five years now. Before that, skipping […]
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Allowing Laughter (in an ALF)
Recently, my husband came home from playing Bingo with my dad at the assisted living facility (ALF.) “That’s the funniest game of Bingo I’ve ever played in my life,” he chuckled as he handed me these… “Where’d you get these?” I asked. “They were prizes,” he said. “I won two games.” “A three-pack of Whoppers […]
