Care-giving is not for "sissies". It demands a self-sacrificial life, long hours, no-pay, no-perks, few or no-off days, and often called to attention on demand! A high percentage of caregivers experience 'depression' and even 'burn-out'. I reproduce this short excerpt from the American Heart Association as a tribute and an encouragement to you.
"You Are Here For A Reason"
In this particular time and place in your life......and perhaps the very specific challenges facing you right now are truly invitations to expand your capacity to be patient, courageous, flexible, forgiving, to make wise choices, to see things from a wider perspective and by embracing and growing through them, to become evermore fully the compassionate, insightful, aware, wise, deep and beautiful soul that you are truly meant to be.
By Caroline Joy Adams; The four principles I will live by as a caregiver:
- I choose to take charge of my life.
- I will love, honor and value myself.
- I will seek, accept and at times demand help.
- I will stand up and be counted.
Already more than a month since I started blogging and I am enjoying this new thingy! So much to learn, especially the 'tools' available to make the blog more interesting and user friendly. Also meet so many bloggers out there that are very inspiring, informative, helpful with all sorts of tips! Being a home caregiver to my wife Rock, I am quite house-bound. I need to research more about care-giving, health-tips, new medicine, health supplements as well as the need to connect with people beyond my four walls and blogging is one great way.
I came across these two sites home-caregiver resource and Steve from Michigan, which I find very informative. Do visit these two sites, especially if you are a home-caregiver and I am sure you will benefit tremendously.
By the way, I met Steve from Fuelmyblog where it is like the Great Wall of China with images of hundreds of bloggers pasted on its 'Wall'. Great place to see neighbors on the Wall and fellow bloggers! Categories consists of Main, Life, Business, All Sorts and Others. One exciting event that is coming is that "You can be appearing on TV or Radio" So if you have a blog add Fuel to power it into the world.
