
A Journey in Review, Post 15: Caregiver Care
It’s good to give the primary caregiver care: a break, an empathetic ear, and acknowledgement that this is hard.
It’s good to give the primary caregiver care: a break, an empathetic ear, and acknowledgement that this is hard.
… these difficult days do pass, and you might return to something similar to your old routine, but never to the “old” normal. The disease changes all of us, and on the other side it, we’re not the same.
How much longer would she have had? At least long enough to enjoy a few more ice cream bars, walks through the field, and idle chatter about little nothings that would become everything after she was gone.
Being around mom as the miracle of her mind slowly lost the cogs and gears that kept it running for eight decades was a heartbreak and a blessing.
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