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I am a very sad caregiver

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@babbsjoy

I completely empathize with you: " I try to get up in the morning and be cheerful and positive because every day is different. The hard days really wear on me. I feel so bad for him and I do whatever I can to help him get through it but I become the brunt of his mood. I know he’s frustrated and in pain so I try to take it with a grain of salt. I have to remember that I am the closest to him and so therefore he is going to lash out at me. I pray hard that God will help him to get better and in the meantime I will love him with my whole heart."

With my husband George, there's no "get[ting] better" in a physical sense.
(He was in hospice care and is now in home-health care.) So, I pray that he "get[s] better" in a spiritual sense so that he has inner peace and calm about the inevitable. (He's still lucid and has been stuck in the "anger" stage of the process, and I am the brunt of his frustration and inability to embrace the decline in his mental and physical health. (He ha Alzheimer's, Lewy Body, vascular dementia and Parkinson's.)

And I pray for foregiveness--for the times that I lose patience and get angry at my husband for his lack of empathy for my own serious health issues. Because I have no moral support from him, I have come to value all your (this "community's") support.

Thanks @babbsjoy for your post, and for inspiring us. May God be with you and your husband through the rest of your days.

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@georgescraftjr
I am so sorry to just be responding to your kind comment. I don’t think I saw it. Looking back to that time, Dad was ill and ultimately hospitalized during that time (and also just recently again).

I am sorry for all you are enduring. I pray for strength, encouragement, and a supernatural awareness of His love and comfort to be poured out to you today and every moment that you most need it. To have unsupported health issues while you are doing your best to care for someone else, and in the way that you must be patient and giving, is super human. I see you. You matter.