Welcome to TLeC! So glad you found the blog and our great community here. Thank you for your kind words about my site. Looking forward to reading more comments from you on new posts, too.

I wish I would of known about this site long before finding it through Twitter, TODAY.

Thanks for sharing. You do have your hands full with three care recipients, and I understand why you say you wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks for caring so strongly about your parents’ and sister’s welfare!

Here are two about me.

1. I care for my parents, 83 and 89 and my 47 y.o. handicapped sister

2. Although there are times that caregiving is challenging, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I am glad you are taking good care of yourself. You make me smile when you write, “When I do, I can not wait to get back home!” You mean male bonding isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?

Hi Lori,

I would love to read your sci fi book when it’s done! Best wishes on completing it this year! Yes, being the “strong” one can get old.

Hi Richard,

I love you too, my dear friend! I didn’t know your book is now also an online course — wonderful. We’ll have to talk about it when we get together.

Support groups for caregivers can be a godsend.
Hospice is just a name for a status, not a place.
Our book (now an online course) is being used by caregivers
as well as patients (Dying 101).
Eldercare is not for the insensitive, the non-compassionate, nor
the impatient. Nor for the immature.

I love what you wrote.

My two things:

I’m a big Sci Fi buff, and I hope to finish my sci fi’ish techno thriller this year.

For all my toughness and tough-mindedness (Black Belt, EMT, former volunteer firefighter), I get tired of being the competent and capable one.

I too practice yoga as a fitness method and supplement it with meditation and solving cross word puzzles as means to keep myself, physically, mentally and intellectually fit.