Category: caregivers
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Sometimes you need to vent
As some of you know, my daughter has been battling major health issues for almost a year and a half and I have been her major supporter—going with her to the numerous doctors’ appointments, cooking her meals, trying to encourage her. One day recently I just felt tired. I wasn’t sure I could go to…
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One nice thing
I’m sharing more wisdom from the doctor’s waiting room. Just when I was about to lose my cool, tired and frustrated from trying to help take care of my very ill brother-in-law, I read this in the January/February issue of Web M.D. Before you climb out of bed in the morning, “spend 20 seconds thinking…
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Wisdom from the waiting room
I discovered this bit of wisdom in a magazine while spending a couple of hours waiting in a doctor’s office. I consider it wisdom because it confirms something I already knew to be true. It’s always good to have reminders. The wisdom? Setbacks are an essential part of learning. If you encounter a setback, keep…
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Keep grounded
In the middle of the second week of helping take care of my seriously ill brother-in-law, I was feeling completely overwhelmed by the craziness of hospitals and doctors, by trying to help keep track of 14 medications and the number of milligrams of sodium for a low-salt diet and by a patient who wasn’t always…
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An expert?
My sister-in-law Linda and I were patiently sitting in the waiting room at the hospital, wondering how my brother-in-law Bob was doing. We had been waiting for hours to talk to the doctor who had inserted six stints in Bob’s heart when we met an expert on heart surgery. He was a short man with…