Society spends most of our formative years teaching us to detach from parental ties. No one tells you that two or three decades later you will no longer need these lessons as your parents may not be dwelling on this earth any longer.
Learn about a personal experience of a caregiver and hermother in the end stages of Alzheimers Disease.
Caregiving is not the end of living. it is a lesson and a cross in ways for us because we are forever changed. This author talks about dealing with life after the loss of a loved one.
Flashbacks occur when the brain is overloaded with information which is too tramatic for it to sort through-so it puts it aside and then BOOM!! Months, maybe years later, things start coming back to life, literally!!
It is only when you get to the top you realize that you overcome the obstacles on your path. Care giving is one of the most difficult things to do if you do not look back and realize that what you have done so far is amazing.
Forgiveness issues come from within us, not from without. We choose whether to forgive those who fail us, hurt us, betray us or deny us. We make that choice out of our own heart.
A compilation of author discuss what mothers and mother’s day means to us.
Depression seems to be part and parcel of becoming a caregiver to a loved one. As we watch our loved one struggle to do simple tasks, watch them decline in mind and body, watch them lose their independence and eventually their lives in the process.
Bad things come with good things and do not let bad things influence your existance in a negative manner.
One way to overcome loneliness and to join the world is to open up to someone who went through what you went. This will lift your spirit and would make you happy.
Isolation is a big part of caregiving. Society seems to forget we are out here doing all we can for our loved ones. The world at large focuses on larger issues and leaves caregivers to fend for ourselves.
I address this article to those of you who are the remaining spouse, having placed your loved one into a care facility. This is a personal story discussing and affirming the feelings experienced by caregivers of Alzheimers patients.
