CAREGIVER STORIES

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Alan's Story

By Alanrsmith

My wife was diagnosed with colon/liver cancer about 2 months ago. She has a tumor the size of a golf ball on the colon and live where they meet. At this point the only thing theya re doing is giving her chemo therapy. This will go on for the next 6 months. I am the person that takes my wife to all appointments. This is including chemo. I have 2 ... Read more

Allison's Story

By Kiddo

Hi, I am my Dad's Kiddo. I will be 29 yrs old tomorrow. I had to have my Father hospitalized on Feb. 14th 2007. My stepmother (his wife of 25 yrs) died Feb. 5th 2005. He was already depressed. Christmas 2005 my stepbrother & I with our spouses went to spend that 1st Christmas with him. This past Christmas he didn't want anybody there. After Christmas ... Read more

anant's Story

By sai

I was eldest of the family of nine. My mom became mentally ill when I was ten and I had taken her for treatment and by 1960 I had to take her to the mental institute at Purasavakkam, Chennai and admit her as a patient. she passed away in 1963. I left India in 1961 and came to U.S.A in 1977 and I want to get back to India and work as a volunteer at ... Read more

Andrea's Story

By Andrea

My mother will be ninety-five in two weeks. She's trying to decide whether she wants to go to the zoo (I hope not because I don't like zoos) or to Goodwill for a shopping trip. Maybe there's not a lot of difference, given the wild things she's found at Goodwill in the past. I'm fortunate because she is still very sharp and, despite a recent broken ... Read more

Angela's Story

By ang

I was devasted when my partner and I sat with the doctor and was told she had pancreatic cancer. It was and unimaginable shock that coursed through my body. I promised her that things would be okay and that we would beat this. She was an amazing woman then, incredibly strong and independent. I knew that we would beat this. Or so I thought. I went to ... Read more

Angela's Story

By Angela

Well this story could go on and on if I started from the begining so I won't. I just picked up my mom today who is nearly 70 from a PA prison. Seven months ago she was arrested for assalting a police officer while they were trying to take her from a burning house. She may have beem drinking I don't know I wasn't there. So she was them arrested and ... Read more

Anna's Story

By annie314

My father is a victim of Parkinsen's for the past 5 years. He also has a pacemaker and dementia when he is tired but for the most part in is very alert and very smart. Since he can only sit a certain way and cannot move while in the bed on his own he is getting bed sores which I have not been able to get under control. ... Read more

Antonia Pena-Cruz's Story

By ToniaPr

I am saying the I have breast cancer and now I am having chemotherapy and the going to have radiation therapy then I am going to get a pill for five years, so that my cancer do not return. ... Read more

Barbara's Story

By bwggibson

When I returned home in 2003 my mother was not doing well. Her system was run down and she was hospitalized often. She in 2004 developed severe blood clots and it was either die or get well. This was all in God's hands. When placed in a rehab facility she regained her health but not out of the woods. The rehab took at home manny months with help ... Read more

Barry's Story

By BarryB

I retired in 2006 after forty years in business to care for my wife who has spinal stenosis and underwent her fifth spine operation at the end of 2005. It is now three years later and my wife's "recovery" from constant pain has changed to "toleration" of on-again off-again discomfort and irregular but frequent jolts of pain. Her significantly reduced ... Read more