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8 Ways to Find Respite Care and Get a Break From Caregiving

8 Ways to Find Respite Care and Get a Break From Caregiving

If you are a caregiver, you know that you absolutely need a break from time-to-time in order to keep your sanity.  This post from Caring.com provides 8 ways to get occasional or regular backup help for a few hours, a few days, or longer.  I used several of these...
What is CBD Oil and Can it Help Me?

What is CBD Oil and Can it Help Me?

  Recently, there have been many questions in our caregivers’ support group on Facebook about using CBD oil to help with a loved one’s anxiety, insomnia, and different types of pain.  Cannabidiol (CBD) is becoming increasingly popular because it has...

Why Caregivers Should Wear Pretty Lingerie

Let me ask you another question: would you be horrified if you were involved in an accident and your current state of lingerie affairs was there for the world to see? Well, that needs to change! I know what you’re going to say: ‘I’m not going to...
Caregivers Can “Be Impulsive” Too!

Caregivers Can “Be Impulsive” Too!

One in seven people entering the hospital needs a blood transfusion. You would think that people admitted to the hospital after an accident would be the ones that would require blood the most often, but that’s not true.  Actually, people who receive the most...
Cruising to Alaska with Oprah and the O Magazine Staff

Cruising to Alaska with Oprah and the O Magazine Staff

I’ve never been on a cruise before and when offered the opportunity to sail to Alaska on a ship where Oprah Winfrey would be sailing too, how could I say No?  Several of the O Mag Insiders were equally as excited and 10 of us began planning for what would be an...