Interview: One Caregiver’s Story, Part 2
In Part One of my interview with Lori Hoeck, family caregiver for her mom, age 79, she candidly told us how her life has changed and shared the daily caregiving challenges she and her husband face. Now we will move on to another subject — the rewards she’s received from being a caregiver, as well [...]
Funny Fridays: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!
A man moves into a Florida nudist colony. He receives a letter from his grandmother asking him to send her a current photo of himself in his new location. Too embarrassed to let her know that he lives in a nudist colony, he cuts a photo in half and mails it. The next day he [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers: On Gratitude — Thanksgiving 2008
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and [...]
Interview: One Caregiver’s Story, Part 1
In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, I am shining the spotlight on a family caregiver who I’ve gotten to know in the blogosphere, Lori Hoeck. Lori is a loyal reader of my blog and in her first comment here told me that she and her husband are family caregivers for her mother, age 79, [...]
Funny Fridays: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!
A woman was sitting at a bar enjoying an after work cocktail with her girlfriends when a tall, exceptionally handsome, extremely sexy, middle-aged man entered. He was so striking that the woman could not take her eyes off him. The young-at-heart man noticed her overly attentive stare and walked directly toward her. (As all men [...]
How to Decrease Caregiver Stress
Since November is National Family Caregivers Month, I want to focus on the many wonderful caregivers in the world and provide extra support for them, too. Let’s start with how to help decrease caregivers’ stress! If you are a family caregiver, please answer these quick questions. (Don’t worry you don’t have to tell me the [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers — 11/12/08
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.” ~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) With gratitude to Lance Ekum at The Jungle of Life [...]
DVD Review: Saving Our Parents
Before watching this documentary I thought it was going to be an investigative report focused on elder abuse, and I was surprised to find out it is much more comprehensive than that! In fact, I wish a major TV network or PBS would air this eye-opening documentary during prime time because it is filled with [...]
Funny Fridays: Because It’s Better to Laugh than to Cry!
A Love Letter I will seek and find you . . I will take you to bed and have my way with you. I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan. I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop! I will exhaust you to the point [...]
November is National Family Caregivers Month
Instead of Wednesday’s usual “Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers” I am sharing a few other inspirational thoughts with you to recognize and honor the many millions of family caregivers worldwide. A Proclamation by the President of the United States During National Family Caregivers Month we recognize and celebrate the many individuals throughout our country who work [...]
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