I Need to Have a Life

I Need to Have a Life

When you become a caregiver, the care recipient’s needs become part of your life. If you’re not careful, their needs can take over your life. This is my 21st year of caregiving—nine years with my mother, seven years with my orphaned twin grandchildren, and five years...
Things caregivers don’t do

Things caregivers don’t do

I hear every day how caregivers don’t go to the grocery store. They’re too busy at home. Caregivers don’t have time for work or school or themselves. They don’t have any friends because their friends and their family abandoned them when things...