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), […]
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 […]
