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Son, Where Did All My Treasures Go?

By Shaywardncr
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Wellness

Treasures to connect you with your loved one.. treasures you can create easily from communications…

Look For The Window

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Community Services
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness
  • Workplace - Employment Issues

A story of a woman who was lost in her grief and found her window after regenerating her “inner battery”. Do not give up and always know that everyone has a window into happiness, one just have to look for it.

Anxiety Vs Depression ~ Revisited

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging

This author describes the feelings and thoughts of being a caregiver.

A Final Resting Place

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging

The author discusses the final resting place for her husband while dealing with feelings and family situations.

The Mean Old Man: A Lesson In Dying

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Experience an act of kindness and caring of a stranger that broke the magic spell of the “mean old man”. A seemingly little detail can make a difference, so do not hesitate and contribute little by little to happiness of others.

Talk To Me

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas

Do not hesitate to talk to the loved one on the death bed. According to the author, he or she will hear you and this “slightly one-sided conversation” will lead to a wonderful peace.

Anxiety Vs Depression

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging

Depression is a feeling of loss. It is feeling defeated, discouraged and angry because of the past. Anxiety is feelin fear of the future.

The Caregiver’s Fence

By Shaywardncr
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Have you ever felt like you were straddling a fence? This is one caregivers struggle between reality and fantasy when dealing with the pending death of a loved one.

My Caregivers’ Burnout Story

By Shaywardncr
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Eldercare
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

Caregiver Burnout–One woman’s struggle to take care of herself and, what seemed to be, the rest of the world.

Letter To Parents At Christmas

By Shaywardncr
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

A letter to the author’s parents describing his appreciation for all the gifts they have given him, especially life. Now he simply asks for them to accept his gifts as lovingly as he accepts their gifts to him.

“God’s Greatest Gift”

By Shaywardncr
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Is there a subject more difficult to talk about than death and dying? Especially your own? I can’t think of one. Yet it can be and awesome and rewarding experience.

Dignity

By Shaywardncr
  • Aging
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care

Have you ever given much thought to dignity? Yours? Someone else’s? Respect for your loved one’s dignity? Here is one woman’s effort to maintain the dignity of her husband.

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