Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
The longer we care for loved ones, care evolves from a handful of things to take care of, to a significant number. Easy to get overwhelmed in the rush, right? Once we've gotten past that adrenaline rush of finding ourselves in a position we never expected to find ourselves, and handling all of the crises …
All lives start to sound like a soap opera as you tell the story, and mine has been no exception. For many of my father's final years, I stepped into the caregiver role, like so many of us. My mum had not been in the picture for over 30 years, so it was quite the …
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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. -Sumner Redstone As caregivers, we all specialize in frustration management. It goes with managing that multitude of care giving issues that can bring us down sometimes. We all know that we didn't sign up for this …
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