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Lessons from caregiving paying dividends during the pandemic

Caregivers | Last Active: May 4, 2022 | Replies (8)
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@IndianaScott

Hi @jeanne5009 I hope all goes well for your friend's recovery and for you with your upcoming transplant.

You raise an interesting thought with your comment 'Likely never will be totally over for me.'

I have tried to explain to many folks, after the loss of my wife and with the pandemic, that I view the future without using the word 'normal' or 'new normal'. To me using that phraseology leads one to be always looking back and measuring the future based on the past. Our lives, once we have a major change, are never the same -- we can't go back, I prefer to not to look back wishing for something that will never occur, but rather admit life is now simply different!

I am glad your caregiving -- for someone else and for yourself is providing a beneficial foundation for you!

Cheers to you!

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jeanne5009 | @jeanne5009 | May 1, 2020

Indeed...never more apparent...
Every day is part of my new life....

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janet7 | @janet7 | May 3, 2022

I really like your outlook you have about your life and seeing your life as different. I am like you, not looking back and wishing my life was the same, because I accepted that years ago. I was a secretary and a homebody so I am not an outdoor person and I like being by myself. I realize I need my quiet time to relax to help get me through difficult times. Then my husband had heart surgery several years ago and just had a pacemaker put in this week. He is barely able to do anything and he used to be a Workaholic and it is hard for him to accept his loss. So now we have more in common and share our time with each other running errands or taking a nice drive together. I still have my Sweet Place I go to after he retires for the night and I enjoy that time for myself. I have to admit COVID slowed me down but my husband needs me now more than ever, and he is my priority.

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