Caregiving is heavy.
Most people never see what you carry…
and most of the time, you don’t get to talk about it.
This is a place where you can.
No pressure. No judgment.
Just your story, exactly as it is.
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One of the hardest & yet Most precious gifts we are chosen to do ,Caregiving has been part of my life since I was very young !!Family taking care of family
I have so many experiences I am so overwhelmed with a lifetime of memories
My last experience & one that has had the greatest & most painful impact on me is caring for my husband through his many years of continuous medical issues that slowly & painfully degenerated working & caring for him was my life !!!! It was difficult to manage the lack of sleep & ever growing number of financial difficulties due to his numerous hospitalizations !!! Our families lived out of state with families of their own
No help available for me as time went on Very lonely sometimes but as I knew God was with us
It's something I would never change I'm grateful I had the strength to continue on through 2020 when it all came to a tragic end
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Care giving was part of my life because of my gradmother who was the one that told me always have a caring heart and never know who's going to need your help.... Young or Old person Will need your help... so after finishing high school went out out of my way to attend college for nursing assistant at pima medical institute... for that after graduation I became a full time as a personal care provider and also doing home health care for the elderly people on hopi reservation.... happy I did My work and proud of it... NOW THAT I NEED THE ASSISTANCE OF CARE OF MYSELF THERE'S NO ONE THERE FOR ME SO I HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF TAKING CARE OF MYSELF AS HOW MUCH I HAVE LEARNED FROM THE BEST SHE CAN BE!!! ( MOM)
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I’m not his family. ,he is a friend and is at the beginning of dementia
I arrange appointments and drive him
I remind him of medication
He lives alone and resists any hired help. I’m it and I get many calls a day and go there 2 times a week. He is not sick enough forc commitment nor guardianship
Need advice on next steps
He is in denial and the docs are not using the word dementia nor Alzheimer’s
Family is unaware and uninvolved and he asked that I do not call them
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When my grandmother came to stay with us she had dementia and we tried to keep her with us but she got mean & violent , so we ended up putting her in a memory care ...My memories have been effected badly , all the good fun things that my Memaw was a great woman , but the woman we put in that place wasn't the same person anymore , I just wish I get those good memories back
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No one prepared me for the PTSD that comes long with working in a level one trauma center 
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Having lost my sister, my best friend, in May ‘24 to dementia, then in May of ‘25 of my partner of decades to a rare form of ALS,I could say lots of what it means to be the caregiver watching the very life seep out of people you’ve loved all your life. One whose mind betrayed her, the other whose body did while his mind remained to the very end of his last breath. There is nothing left but the profound loss and a sense of having failed them both.
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Alzheimer's it's hard when your parents are scared of you because they don't know whom you are anymore
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It's tough when you're elected to care for parents and the other siblings criticize everything but don't do much. I'm tired
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Caregiving been part of my life for 35 + years.. I've had many jobs over these years. I've been through it all. I'm great at my gift of care. I've learned we need to take care of ourselves mind,body,and soul to keep doing my job. I worked in hospital 22 years. During Covid I witnessed horrible things. Heartbreaking things. That was the hardest time. Well I quit that job and the door closed . I tried other facilities after some time off. That didn't work out. A new door opened and I'm now a homecare caregiver. I love my job as I been with the company for year now. It's not just a job it's your profession.
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I care for my son making sure he’s taking his epilepsy medications on time every day…..but my daughter who had ADHD ended it all although I tried to help her deal with it…..but when her youngest daughter took her life because of bullying, my daughter could not take it anymore and did the same crazy thing back in February…..and now I’m under Gods care because she was my nurse also……
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It's so hard to quit after they pass
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