Just wondering if there are any carers here.
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Not currently, my mom is healthy and active. I have in the past, with my grandmother, and will again for my mom.
She’ll never be in an elder center, and I’ll be her private nurse.
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Where do you want me to answer? Here or there? They never answer the phone, now that their ‘inheritance’ is secured.
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my older brother did that too, really tormented me, not sexually though. not at all.
Not currently. I spent 3 beautiful years caring for my Mom, until she had to go into Hospital care. I wouldn’t trade a minute of it. Hard yes, but Mom? No question.
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May I ask where the question comes from?
Thinking of your own parents? Thinking of your own future?
We never know what the future holds. You have friends here.
Still want to take you out some time. Party!
I’m increasingly becoming a carer for someone elderly. I’m just wondering if I’ll be able to cope!
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Not currently. My parents are both able to take care of themselves but I wouldn’t be surprised if someday they are not able to and I may have to take up that role. I’m not sure though, my dad is extremely active and that may keep him fit until the day he dies.
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nods
It can happen quick.
If you need help processing I’m willing to chat. I also have done hospice care.
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I was a carer with my father for my wheelchair bound Mom who suffered from dementia.
In the end it drained the life out of me!
I was struggling in the end.
Currently I’m helping my father out, I live with him.
Right now he’s more independent than my Mom was.
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I cared for my mother until I couldn’t handle her anymore. I had 3 young children and was pregnant by the time she needed to go to a facility.
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My step grandfather was like that. He went to the Cleveland Clinic for a routine heart op and got an infection in the hospital that killed him.
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I was talking care of my mother.
She got diagnosed lung cancer 2008.
I was 34 yrs.
She had scheduled operation, but dr wanted bribe…
So we found another. She was alredy on hemotherapy. Went by bus to clinique, cause we had no car.
After surgery everything was ok for a month, until drs spotted tumor in brain.
She became immovable, and brother and I changed her dipers and washed her.
Then month radiation, all of her hair was gonne…
She died of heart attack two months after on our arms…
Nobody helped us, and I made it clear, I will take care of no one left.
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