Pandemic piles more onto existing ‘double layer of exhaustion’ for caregivers of kids with complex needs
Jacqui Cameron was used to the toll of her son’s daily care. Seizures, feeding tubes, his incontinence and no sleep were all norms in her life. Now, with the pandemic, the Regina caregiver has even more to worry about. “We live with a double layer of...
My Parents Got Sick. It Changed How I Thought About My Marriage
In April of the pandemic, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was not an optimal moment to need a pulmonary specialist. In September we learned that my father had ALS. That was it for me—it was time to go home. That I’d now taken to calling it home...
Care During COVID
Caregiving has always been hard work, and heart work. It has always been challenging, rewarding, grueling and life-giving. It has always been work worth doing, and work whose worth is challenged, or hard to quantify. And adding COVID to the mix…didn’t help. This...
Caregiving In The Time Of COVID
Alexis Baden-Meyer’s mornings are complicated. She wakes up around 6 a.m., ushering herself out of bed just as the Washington D.C. sun climbs over the horizon. Her mother sleeps in the adjoining bedroom, to which the 46-year-old daughter makes a beeline. She bathes...
5 Considerations for Traveling While Caregiving During COVID-19
These considerations for traveling while caregiving will prevent the spread of COVID-19 and reduce any accidental exposure.
Sent Home to Die
Sarah Johnson spent her entire life taking care of people — the six children she raised, mostly alone, and the hospital patients she served in her 25 years as a nurse. But at 86, she was the one who needed care. She was thin and frail and had COVID-19. Her son Rodney...Top Posts
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