275. Taking care of ourselves, while we are a "caregiver". Unstringing our bow.
This article from Meridian Magazine reminds me of when my dear mother, Ruth Allen Miles, lived with us . We did have home health which came and helped her have baths but the he last 3 weeks she lived with us, we were helping her constantly. For those weeks, I had a baby monitor in her bedroom, as she wouldn't ask for help in the night time. Often during the night when I heard little noises, we would go and find she had fallen, and couldn't get up, or needed help after the bathroom. My husband Wayne and I couldn't lift her. She just wouldn't call for help. This is my dear mother, age 88, while living with us. Within 6 months, she was so incapacitated, we finally took her to a good, kind, care center. I became so exhausted, my Relief Society President, and the home health people both told me she needed 24 hour care. My sisters and I consulted, and we took her to a nursing home that was very attentive to her needs. She lived there just over 2 years b