Comments on: Worn http://msbegotten.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/worn/ The Challenges Of A Caregiver Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Carol Bradley Bursack http://msbegotten.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/worn/#comment-49 Carol Bradley Bursack Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:56:02 +0000 http://msbegotten.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/worn/#comment-49 Of course you are worn. The caregiving itself wears away like water on a rock. It's always on your mind, even if you have physically escaped for a bit. I spent two decades caring for seven elders (and two children, during much of it). The physical and emotinal toll is great. Support from other caregivers is what gets us through. Please keep talking with other caregivers - for your own health's sake. Carol Bradley Bursack Minding Our Elders Of course you are worn. The caregiving itself wears away like water on a rock. It’s always on your mind, even if you have physically escaped for a bit.

I spent two decades caring for seven elders (and two children, during much of it). The physical and emotinal toll is great. Support from other caregivers is what gets us through. Please keep talking with other caregivers – for your own health’s sake.
Carol Bradley Bursack
Minding Our Elders

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