Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Dementia, as a plot device for television or film, has never quite lived up to the reality. Usually played for sobbing sympathy or just a tragic underscore to a character, the story line usually leaves out the stumbling’s of the caregivers and their associated confused introduction to their new roles.
Caregiving is as much an emotional roller-coaster for things about the caregiver as it is to the caregiving itself.
Do-overs. That childhood name for all of those things or situations we really wished had turned out differently. Somehow we never entirely give up on the concept, even though we intellectually come to understand other realities as we grow into adulthood. With the passing of family to whom I had been a caregiver, I find …
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 …
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