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micah

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  • Date of Death
    September 15, 2010
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  1. Marty, thank you for the info. I have checked out the articles and am encouraged by them. My secretarial job (after 11 years in the same job) pays well but drains every ounce of energy from me at the same time. The time I spent caring for my mother was draining, too, but was way more necessary and gave me back so much more emotionally. I'm sure others have found that, too. Financially, I need to keep on working, and the rate of pay for caregivers, and the need to scramble for enough paid hours to earn a living - doesn't support the importance of caregiving as a career. Why isn't caregiving given the respect of an adequate level of pay?
  2. Thanks to all who posted. I'm sure there are many of us adrift afterward. It's just to find out where we are now meant to be. I can't think any of us have gone through what we have gone through, caring so much and so well, and then our experience and skills are just no longer needed? The ordinary things - family, jobs, the rest of our lives -just don't call us the way we were called upon before, do they? There is such a need for care-giving everywhere - but is age a factor? Is it too late (at my age of 62) to go back to school to get the credentials to be hired/accepted as a caregiver? It doesn't seem to go just on experience alone.
  3. I lost my Mom on September 15 this year, after our 3-year fight with Alzheimer's disease. I am dealing with the post-AD, post-death consequences. I had a paid caregiver with Mom while I was at work, and took over from 4 p.m. until next morning, then all weekend, holidays. I am completely lost. Not only do I not have my beloved Mom with me any longer, but I am having trouble letting go, I guess. Work is about to fire me because my at-work presence is less than present. And now that I am not an almost-full-time caregiver and daughter, I don't know who I am any longer. Help?
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