Hi, Everybody. I wanted to post about a great new caregiving support book that I picked up at Barnes & Noble. I don’t think I’ve posted about it before…but I can’t remember my name some days! It’s a large softcover thing entitled “The Everything Guide to Caring for Aging Parents: Reassuring Advice to Help You [...]
Hey Guyz, sorry it’s been so long since I could repost. I hope everybody’s doing ok and finding some time also for their own health and batteries-recharging. I’m applying for an all-online graduate degree program in — get this, am I a glutton for punishment, or what — Gerontology, with Management of Aging Services Track! [...]
We need to find moments to laugh…and to share that..with each other. I have this aunt whom I call my “college aunt,” because when I was going nuts applying for undergrad school many years back, her kids (my cousins) were already on their way and she provided me loads of advice and support — always did, [...]
Hey Everybody, you my brothers and sisters in caregiving are all my heroes — and today, meanwhile, I wanted to wish a well-deserved Happy Mothers Day to all of you who are moms yourselves, and/or taking care of moms — because it is Your Day, you deserve to own it, and you merit being recognized [...]
Hi, Everybody. Sorry I’ve been away a few days. I hope everything with all of you and the site updates have been going as well as can be. I’m just sitting here with a cup of hot peppermint tea and my feet up typing — like a slob — and I both love and need [...]
I haven’t telephoned with my mom in a couple of days. Not because I’m a bad son or person, or selfish — but I’m sick a lot, too. Abdominal adhesion flare-ups, besides IBS and colitis, continue to be a chronic, very painful and disruptive health problem for me that wreaks havoc on and interrupts my [...]
Image via Wikipedia Hello, today I wanted to remember all of us and wish everybody celebrating Easter that they and their caregivers or caregiven have as special and as tranquil a holiday as is possible. And for those here of us who do not celebrate Easter, still I wish for you the realization of the [...]
Today, I’m feeling sad and angry. My late brother, my only sibling who was 10 years my senior, would’ve been 57-years-old today. It’s hard for one to reflect on being 15 years “older” than his late sibling was when he died. And this was so much crap at work, and my mother whining on the [...]
The last few days have given me a chance to unwind, refocus on my goals, and to get a little bit of bigger-picture insight into my mom caregiver role. Friday evening, I dined out with a high school-era friend and current education work colleage, whose family is going through this, too: his 92-year-old dad is [...]
Hi, all. Sorry I’ve been away for a long bit. I feel like the last 2 months “happened,” but I “didn’t.” Make sense? As if I was on autopilot. I don’t remember the Holidays — I had a diverticulitis flareup. Luckily, my gastroenterologist turned me on to a new medicine, Dyciclomene, which is an antispasmodic [...]
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