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Coping with unsupportive familes

” Do you feel like you’re doing it all? Do you spend most of your time and energycaring for your parent while your siblings continue to take vacations, sleep late on the week-ends and pursue personal interests?  Are you sacrificing your own health and...

It’s Okay to Say NO

Less than 2 weeks ago, my father underwent 2 angiograms (one upper, one abdominal aorta) which were supposed to be followed by bilateral stent replacements of the femoral arteries. Fortunately, the angiograms occurred without incident and my father is doing well. ...

No Joy In Mudville

There are good days and bad days in care giving.  Today was not a good day.  My mantra is that there is joy in care giving………but there was no joy in Mudville today. First of all, I slept for all of 4 hours last night because my father had just...

Fired for being too bossy

Yesterday afternoon, as I was listening in the distance as my father talked on the phone, I heard him tell my mother that I was fired from my nursing postion. “They didn’t like her; she was too bossy”, he said. You might be thinking “well,...

Taking My Own Advice!

Have you ever fed an alpaca?  I have.  Last year, before I started being a full-time caregiver for my father, I would take these odd excursions just for the sheer experience of learning new things.  One of the places I visited was a near-by  alpaca farm.  I had...

You Want Me to Do What????

” Increase the Altace from 5mg to 10mg;  Hold the Digoxin times 2 days and then cut the dose in half; Add 1000 mcg vit B12 (you can get it over-the-counter); Continue the coumadin but on the 26th we’re going to stop the coumadin and give Lovanox injections...