Caregiving in the trenches means living in a world where just as you find your rhythm, trauma stacks on top of trauma. Things were starting to feel normal—as normal as life can be in caregiving, or life in the trenches, as we say in our world. The meds were under control, doctor’s appointments were happening Read More …
Our caregiving journey has been nothing like we expected. Two summers ago, we were standing under the Sistine Chapel ceiling, craning our necks to take it all in. Last summer, we were laughing over pizza in Amsterdam. This summer, I’m memorizing hospital hallways and medication schedules. Life flipped overnight, and we never saw it coming. Read More …
Caring for someone who doesn’t know they’re confused isn’t something you’re ever prepared for. Nobody teaches you how to be a caregiver.Not really.They show you how to take a blood pressure reading, how to push a wheelchair, how to lift someone without hurting your back.But they don’t teach you how to be patient with someone Read More …
Caregiving setbacks hit hard — especially when you don’t see them coming. It was a Sunday. We were all set to go to one of our favorite restaurants — Berry’s. We’d been planning it all week, looking forward to it like a big event. It was supposed to be smooth. Just a walk down the Read More …
In this caregiving blog, I share the parts no one talks about — the quiet, late-night moments where love shows up in silence. There are emergencies, sure. The moments when everything feels urgent — meds, symptoms, appointments, questions you don’t have answers to. Like that night I woke up at 3 a.m. and something just Read More …