Update: What’s Scary About Caregiving?
Oct 18 2011 in Denise's Blog, Your Caregiving Journey by Denise
Our live call-in talk show airs at 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT, 4:30 p.m. PT) tonight! We’re taking your answers to this question: What’s scary about caregiving? (Our show aired last night; you can listen to our show via the player below.)
Call (646) 652-4944 to share during our live show. Or, join our show’s chat room to post your insight. If you’re on Twitter, you can tweet during the show using this hashtag: #caretalk. And, to thank you for calling in the during the show to share, we’ll give our first two callers a Caregiving.com gym bag. Join us here.
Can’t join us tonight? Feel free to share your insights in our comments section, below. Let us know what feels scary and how you can overcome the fears.
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G-J said on October 18, 2011
I may not be able to join in tonight as we have a cross country meet this afternoon, so I thought I’d provide my input now. The unknown is scary. Is this diagnosis right? Is this course of treatment right? Is there something better we could be doing? What’s going to happen next? It’s like going to a haunted house where you don’t know what’s going to happen next.
Liliana said on October 18, 2011
I wasnt able to call in but I have to agree with GJ. The scary part of caregiving is not knowing whats next, especially for someone that likes to be incharge. I am someone who is very organized and like to keep everything in order but with caregiving you just never know.
kristin said on October 18, 2011
I was also unable to call in, but this topic is very relevant to me: I am scared to death that this is IT. That the caregiving will go on so long that I will die in my traces here. Although I am resolved to be a good caretaker, to live in this moment of caregiving, and to make it count as a valuable way to spend my life, I am at an age that I also have other things I want to accomplish. I have always looked forward to a time when I have no other responsibilities in order to devote myself to Good Works (without the responsibility of all the paperwork required of my previous career, social work). I have skills other than changing pull-ups and colostomy bags. I would like to have the time to use them.
Trish said on October 19, 2011
I wasn’t able to listen last night but I have to agree with the others that the unknown is the most scary for me. What is the news on the other end of the phone? Robert’s in the hospital? Robert fell or is having behavioral issues that I need to manage? Not knowing when the other shoe will drop is definitely what is scariest for me. Thanks for doing these shows, Denise!