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dadcarer
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patient and caregiver advocate since retiring 8 years ago
patient and caregiver advocate since retiring 8 years ago
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Ray of Sunshine
thanks for your care and good wishes! xxx
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You certainly have a lot on your plate, thanks for sall the excellent input on the forum Katie xxx
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Thank you I will!
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I changed my life to return to my hometown and care for my elderly mother who has an incurable lung disease. I have been doing this for several years now so I totally understand what it feels like to have to lower your expectations and make personal sacrifices in caring for your elderly parents. Know that what you are doing is a noble thing and there are many out there who admire you...many who want to do what you are doing but can't, or won't because the sacrifice would be too great on their own life. One excellent source of support and inspiration is the National Family Caregivers Association or NFCA. Check out their website at www.NFCAcares.org. It is a non-profit group that distributes information and support for folks like you and me, caring for a loved one in their time of need. You are definately not alone so you don't have to feel isolated. It is important for you to take care of yourself in various healthy ways, mentally and physically, and to not get lost giving all you have in taking care your father. It is also important to establish your position with any and all of your father's physicians and related health care providers as not just someone in the background but as an essential member of your father's total care team.
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Close Caring For Aging Parents
Caregiver for two aging parents (one recently died). Father is post-stroke, has cancer, a tracheostomy and multiple health problems.
Close Caregivers
I am patient and caregiver advocate. Have cared for my mother-in-law, and both my parents over the past 18 years.
Open Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
My dad has been suffering with CLL for the past 20 years or so. We take him for monthly immunoglobulin treatments. So far so good.
Open Fibromyalgia
Diagnosed three years ago with fibromyalgia after making the rounds of doctors for about 30 years with all my complaints and no one ever put the whole picture together.
Treatments
- Physical Exercise Somewhat Helpful
