by External Article | Jan 13, 2021 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent |
When you are born, Daoist lore says, three spirits enter your body. Depending on who you ask, these spirits are sometimes called the Three Corpses and sometimes called the Three Worms. My cousin—whose parents are both Taiwanese, and whose Taiwanese-ness is salient to... 
by External Article | Mar 13, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Distance Caregiving |
I live on the East Coast; my mother lives on the West. Sometime in the next couple of weeks, I have to decide whether I will visit her in April, as planned—and, if I do, whether I’ll bring my kids along. It takes two planes and anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending... 
by External Article | Jan 22, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X, Grief, Working Family Caregivers |
When Marjorie’s husband had a health scare, it was her father who looked it over and asked her the hard questions. And when it was confirmed that his cancer was terminal, it was her father who came to support her. Without much debate or conversation my dad... 
by Guest Author | Jul 27, 2017 | Caregiver News |
In a recent study, published in The Oncologist, just under 10% of patients diagnosed with terminal cancer did not know their prognosis and had no interest in finding out. This unwillingness to face a poor prognosis can lead to unnecessary treatments and prevent... 
by External Article | Aug 30, 2016 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Meaning |
Ten years ago this month, my world as I knew it ended. My husband of 19 years, the father of my two sons, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Over the course of seven months, Bill went from beating me silly on the tennis court to needing my help to go to the bathroom... 
by Kaiser Health News | Dec 9, 2015 | Caregiver News |
LOS ANGELES — More times than she can count, Dr. Carin van Zyl has heard terminally ill patients beg to die. They tell her they can’t handle the pain, that the nausea is unbearable and the anxiety overwhelming. If she were in the same situation, she too would want... 
by Joy Johnston | Sep 4, 2015 | Caregiver Stories |
Though I had been keeping track of my mother’s weight and vital signs like some people analyze the statistics of their fantasy football players, I was still unprepared when I saw my mother’s emaciated body in person. How much weight could one lose in a month? A lot,... 
by Bob Harrison | Feb 6, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Finding Meaning, Long Term Caregiving |
One of the most difficult and complex things one will ever do in life is be a caregiver for a terminally ill loved one. In my case, it was never a question of if Annie was going to die, but when. As a caregiver, the burden that we carry is almost too much to bear at... 
by Bob Harrison | Jan 31, 2015 | Baby Boom Generation, Because of Annie, Caregiver Stories, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving |
Anytime you’re told by your family doctor that you’ve been set up with an oncologist for a consultation at the cancer center, the anxiety will probably race through your body in waves. This is how the consultation went for Annie and me. Keep in mind, no... 
by External Article | Dec 1, 2010 | After Caregiving, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning, Generation X, Grief, Long Distance Caregiving |
She rode the hour-long bus from Seoul to the airport and met me in the airport, and then we rode the hour-long bus back in. She’d already had the biopsy, so we went in to talk to the doctor about the result of it. I wasn’t being irrational or anything I didn’t think.... 
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