by External Article | Nov 30, 2022 | Caring for a Client, For Professional Caregivers |
When I was 19, a nursing home hired me to work as an aide. There wasn’t much to the interview that I remember, other than I agreed to come to work on time and take the certification course the home provided. In this course, I learned how to lift a frail person out of... 
by External Article | Oct 1, 2021 | For Friends & Family, Occasional Caregiving |
For reasons I still can’t grasp, Conway — a brain-damaged burn victim with seven fingers — never could qualify for disability. Caroline was managing their day-to-day lives while working a low-wage job as a medical courier, picking up extra shifts when she could to... 
by External Article | Mar 10, 2021 | 24/7 Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Child |
A few years ago on a gorgeous June day, I found myself in a windowless bathroom with forget-me-not wallpaper, my butt on a toilet, without any good reason to be there. It was a standard mothering move. Beyond the door, I could hear my two small kids laughing and... 
by External Article | Sep 30, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Friend, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Generation X, Long Distance Caregiving, Occasional Caregiving |
No one ever uses the word dying, even if it’s the correct word to use. We think this denial of the obvious, of the facts, is for Hannah’s benefit—if we refuse to see how bad it is then maybe she won’t see it either. But no one sees it or feels it more clearly than... 
by External Article | May 21, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finding Caregiver Support, Finding Meaning, Grief |
My mother died shortly after 4 a.m. in the pitch black of a November morning. By roughly 8:30 a.m. that day, the 29th, I had alerted my Twitter and Instagram followers, as well as my Facebook friends. I copied and pasted a few lines across the three platforms, words... 
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