Category Archives: Caregiving
For posts about caregivers and caregiving
How to Love Someone with Chronic Pain
Sallie Belle Howell’s guest post talks about caring for a person living with chronic illness using love, acceptance, communication, and self-care. And she points us to a way to achieve that love. Visit Sallie Belle’s website, Mourning the Pain, for more info. Watching someone you love live with chronic illness can be difficult. At times, […]
Continue readingWhen A Caregiver Needs Care, Part Two
Lydia Beier’s, A Caregiver Needs Care, Part 2, tells how caring for her father impacted her own health issues. Read the beginning of the story in Part 1. Lydia experiences several disabling chronic illnesses and writes about this, her faith, and other issues on her website, Being Lydia. Lydia’s story continues In my first post […]
Continue readingThree Ways I Kept My Sanity While Being a Caregiver
Today’s guest writer is Donna Long who brings information to us about how to successfully care-give in difficult circumstances. She and her two daughters write “Life on Sixth Street,” a Christian family lifestyle website. Emily wrote last month’s post, and her sister will write next month’s article. Donna’s caregiving Her questions Being a caregiver to […]
Continue readingWhen A Caregiver Needs Care, Part One
Do you have physical challenges, yet have a family member who needs help? Lydia Beier’s, a caregiver needs care, introduces her father and why he needs assistance. Lydia herself experiences several disabling chronic illnesses. She writes about this, her faith, and other issues on her website, Being Lydia. Anyone dealing with chronic illness/pain knows that […]
Continue readingLife Is Hard
John and Lynn – an unusual couple. She lives with a chronic condition, and he is her caregiver – long-distance. Maybe carer, a term used in other countries, is a better term. Read his honest assessment of how he copes. John Reader’s The Trucking Monk: Learning to experience God one mile at a time is […]
Continue readingWhat Happens When the Caregiver Needs Help – Our Story
Our caregivers are super important to us – sometimes critical to our well-being. So what happens when they need help? Stroke stories. Read ours. Come along on our journey through the storms of strokes. Our story, short version Day #1 July 22, 2019, six days after our 53rd anniversary, one day before Joe's 74th birthday, […]
Continue readingWhat Do You Do When Caregivers Need Care?
Caregivers are human, too. They get sick. They get overwhelmed. Sometimes, they even need surgery. So … What do you do when that happens? You still have needs to be met, but now they might not be able to aid you as normal. And now, they may be unable to meet their own needs. Between […]
Continue readingAttention: Caregivers Really Do Need Your Help!
Helping caregivers of invisibly disabled people relieves their stress. What stress? They’re able-bodied; what problems do they have? Stresses on their time, abilities, emotions, and often their income. Do our caregivers need help? Why? Aren’t they doing just fine? You’re the one that hurts, not them. Observer, you understand your friend is invisibly disabled, but […]
Continue readingExpressing Gratitude for Caregivers
Gratitude for Caregivers - Why? For nearly forty years, Joe has faithfully aided Carole to enable her participation in life. That alone is reason for gratitude. Recently, he penned these words about caregiving. “Caregivers set aside some personal things like time and energy. Time to care about, with, and for the loved one. They do […]
Continue readingCaregivers for Invisibly Disabled
Cautions and Kudos for the Caregivers for Invisibly Disabled (other caregivers, too) Are you a caregiver? Have a caregiver? Know a caregiver? Dwellers may have invisible disabilities, but their caregivers seem “invisible”, too. If people don’t see – or believe – the disabilities, how can they see the caregiver? Or that the caregiver himself […]
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