... expect to have someone so close to me with cancer and I never imagined I would havedifficulty coping with it). My dad has been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. He has just begun the dreaded...
... chose to form the LIVESTRONG foundation to help others and that he has done. I see beyond the doping scandals to which he is not the first and is one of many to try to be the best in the world. As a society...
My mom has emphasema and refuses to go to a hospital/nursing home. She is probably close to 87lbs now, will only use oxygen at night, still smoking a pack a day. Shecan't even lift her coffee cup without...
... of his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was diagnosed in November 2011, when he was in the hospital after a stroke. It has been, and continues to be, a long haul. My Dad is 76, and my Mom is 75, but...
... and very hard. My mother was his primary caregiver but after Christmas, I saw her start to spiral down and lose her strength. She cannot cope with it all anymore. She became depressed and had a...
... world crashed down. Even now writing this I am crying. My 54 year old mother was taken to the hospital for a broken hip and we found out she has cancer. There was no symptoms except for a sore shoulder...
... as there was a mass in his lung, we went to see her, and were told that she knows from the shaping of the mass and such that its definitely Cancer. he also has enlarged lymph nodes and what she believes...
... that come out of her mouth. I dread weekends and vacations as there is no escape and that is typically when the verbal assaults take place. Over a 4 week vacation period, I had 2 days of peace before...
... rolling that "caregiving" tape... you know, did I remember everything, things like that keep popping up. Also, when you do family caregiving, there is never an "off-Duty" time... you feel the...
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