Archive for May 2018

More at… http://www.caregivingmadeeasy.com/health-for-caregivers/ Health Changes Caregivers Can Make Today For Their Overall Health   If you are looking for ways to improve your health but are overwhelmed about how much time it will take or how expensive it will be, I’m here to help! I know that as a caregiver, you don’t have a lot of time or …… Read More

More at… https://paulettahansel.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/too-personal-on-writing-about-my-mothers-dementia/ Too Personal like the underside of a cat’s tongue, like someone else’s bathwater, like bedsheets still warm, like a spit-wet thumb flicking sleep from the corner of your mother’s eye, like an old hymn hummed beneath curdled breath, like ragged stitches pulled from a wound. These poems are too … Read More

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Your tone of voice communicates more than words.

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More at… https://paulettahansel.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/the-practice-of-poetry-poems-as-love/ You Never Were the mother I wanted at the time I had you. Always I was swallowing down the longing rising for the mother come and gone. The one whose cool hand nested in a tangle of my curls. The one whose hair was blueblack crow, caught midflight. Once gravity had settled you to ground, … Con… Read More

More at… http://www.caregivingmadeeasy.com/role-reversal-what-its-like-to-need-caregiving-support/ A View From The Other Side Of Caregiving   In mid-December, I went in for surgery. It was supposed to be one surgery, but in the end, I had three surgeries in three weeks. I also had the flu in between my surgeries. My second round of surgery was a far more difficult recovery. I’m …… Read More

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The gifts of caregiving were surprising. Self-awareness was one of the most important.

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More at… http://thecaregiverspace.org/picking-up-the-pieces-after-the-person-you-have-been-caring-for-dies/ When you are in the midst of being a caregiver you build your time and your life around managing the caregiver tasks that need to be done. As a caregiver for my dad I know my schedule revolved around visits to the doctor, the hospital, the assisted living facility, and ultimately the skilled nursin… Read More