Blog of My Mom

A Checklist for Hiring A Paid Caregiver
  Download Your Checklist HERE Finding the perfect Care Provider (Paid Caregiver) to work in your home with your loved one can be a task. I was lucky to find Paige, who both mommy and I loved endlessly, but the...
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Guilt When Requesting "To Just Sleep"
Someone left a comment on another blog post that resonated with me. She was in the hospital, sitting next to her 94-year-old mother, exhausted and unsure. She commented that she felt guilty just asking for 1 day of respite, at...
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What is REAL self-care?
"Get you a mani-pedi" "Light some candles and drink wine girl" The number of times that I have been told to do surface-level tasks to feel better about myself is innumerable. And I always wondered why I rarely felt a...
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Low Cost Therapy for Caregivers
My third year of caregiving I had a mental breakdown, I hadn't dealt with the multiple losses, the death of my grandmother, and the transition from being a daughter to becoming a caregiver and the crazy amount I had accumulated...
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