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Firefly Dreaming is a year old and I thought it might be fun to look back at some of our first year posts that exemplify our firefly dreaming spirit and mission. Original post with comments can be found here:
Life with Father by puzzled
And mother.
Caring for two elderly parents with various health issues is a juggling act. Adding their demands to those of my own family, job and community obligations is like juggling three flaming torches and a bowling ball.
In addition to the normal crap an average person keeps in his or her brain, the caregiver of an elderly parent needs to keep Social Security numbers, medication lists and dosages, medical history information and doctors phone numbers, either committed to memory, or on an ever-present piece of paper, or both, because under stress the brain tends to go blank and papers tend to go missing. Two parents? Double the information, and hope like hell you don't mix them up in the throes of an emergency.
(It has been said that society is judged by the way it treats it's elderly... - promoted by newpioneer)
And mother.
Caring for two elderly parents with various health issues is a juggling act. Adding their demands to those of my own family, job and community obligations is like juggling three flaming torches and a bowling ball.
In addition to the normal crap an average person keeps in his or her brain, the caregiver of an elderly parent needs to keep Social Security numbers, medication lists and dosages, medical history information and doctors phone numbers, either committed to memory, or on an ever-present piece of paper, or both, because under stress the brain tends to go blank and papers tend to go missing. Two parents? Double the information, and hope like hell you don't mix them up in the throes of an emergency.
