#caretaking — Public Fediverse posts

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#DisabilityAwareness
#DisabilityInclusion
#Accessibility
#Caretaking

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I am fed up with their awful scheduling, endless excuses for failing to meet appointed times, or failing to show up altogether. I need to hear from others about their experiences--confidentiality guaranteed !! Clients are needlessly suffering.
Paramed, owned by Extendicare, secured contracts with provinces and need to fulfil their promised services and contracts, but are wasting taxpayers dollars with their careless and irresponsible management.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks.

#Aging #Caretaking #Elderly
#Dementia #Alzheirmers
#Seniors #HomeSupport
#Caretaker #Disabled #Disability #ChronicIllness #Disease
#Canada #Health #Healthcare #NovaScotia #Ontario #Alberta
#Government #Nursing #PSW
#Doctor #Physician #Hospital

Yeah, one dose of the sleeping med is not enough to counter the Wellbutrin. Even after a late bedtime because of (completely unnecessary panic) over my mom’s blood sugar levels. Which are now too high. I shall womanfully refrain from “I told you so.” #insomnia #caretaking

I put into a text that we might need a CNA because I don’t think I can continue like I have been. We’ll see what comes of that. #caretaking

#Caretaking has invaded my dreams now. Pretty awful.

Feel mildly vindicated that the nurse trying to unclog my mom’s feeding tube also ended up with an Old Faithful type of eruption when the valve came out. But also hoping enough of the enzymes got in so that it’ll dissolve the clog. #caretaking #ER #NotHereAgain

I have named the feeding pump “Buzz.”
#Caretaking

"Beyond hormonal factors, #evolution may also contribute to women’s longevity. The #grandmotherHypothesis,” while up for debate, suggests that women may have evolved to have long post-reproductive lives to help raise their grandchildren, increasing their chances of survival and allowing their daughters to have more children.
“Women nurture their children, husbands and elderly parents as if a task they are required to bear,” Moti Gamburd, CEO at CARE Homecare, tells Yahoo Life. To do so, they instinctively construct their lives to prepare for a #caretaking role by making sure they themselves are healthy enough to do so, says Gamburd. “They visit the doctor, take medication as instructed and follow habits that will keep them healthy."

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/85-of-people-who-live-to-100-are-women-whats-their-secret-090051770.html

Tonight I'm probably, for the last time, drawing a sitzbath for my partner(the artist formally known as "The Patient"). It's been a hectic, intimate, stressful blur of two months & we're both glad to begin looking at it in the rear view mirror. Mission: Complete.

Time to set aside the convalescence rituals we've set up together and.....oooh new Doctor Who episode just dropped!

#caretaking #SelfCare

Happening next week! I'll be hosting a Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) member meetup on caretaking and parenting in academia.

https://www.sah.org/membership/sah-member-meetups

#SAH #SocietyOfArchitecturalHistorians #Momademia #Academia #Parenting #Caretaking @academicchatter

There are like 8 people to whom I currently want to scream, “yes, the Thing you are asking me to do is indeed a MASSIVE inconvenience which impacts my life and well-being in a substantially negative long term way, and I wish you would consider that I’m a human who works very hard for not a lot of reward except social media likes - and has at least one feeling!”

But of course, I will merely make a very gentle allusion to the same, and won’t throw a fit when they ask, “is it fine if you just”, and assume I’m at hacks4pancakes: social media influencer and Reliable Helper.

**- is it fine if you just don’t get paid for your hours of work

-is it fine if we just change the schedule so you miss out on a major life event

-is it fine if we just move you somewhere uncomfortable so someone else isn’t uncomfortable, as they’re complaining louder

-is it fine if you try to get a little less attention and be a little quieter because people are intimidated with you being famous

-is it fine if you just carve a few more hours of your sleep out because your calendar is full already

-is it fine if we just drop a meeting on your calendar without checking it at all**

If there are no-drama helpers and rocks in your life, please consider their feelings and success occasionally. They won’t scream, and almost nobody looks out for us.

#mentalHealth #empathy #caretaking

Dad's old friend offered to visit Saturday.

"No."
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OK why don't you just think about it Dad?

He hasn't really talked to anyone but family since early in the pandemic.

Leaving him here is going to be really hard. But he refuses to fly to visit me.

#caretaking
#diabetes
#HearingLoss
#Ugh

At the lab with #dad. He got up early and didn't eat for these blood draws. His fasting blood glucose is still 201. They only had an order for a lipid panel.

Called urgent care, mashed the "I'm a doctor" button, and talked to the nurse. She called back and gave verbal orders for the other tests.

I am not a doctor I don't even play one on TV I'm just a stubborn daughter being taught by life to get over my rule following ways once and for all 🤷‍♀️

#diabetes
#caretaking

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“Take Care of Yourself and Have a Life Outside of Caregiving

Please don’t make #caretaking your whole life. Make sure that you are doing the things that are restorative to you, and that make your life rewarding outside of me. And don’t feel guilty doing them! You deserve to have an identity outside of this illness, and you will be a better caregiver to me if you take care of yourself”

#caring #caregiver #caregivers #caregiving #carer #carers #longtermillness #chronicillness

Somehow, nothing in my years of academic training has prepared me for how to get my mother to remember she needs to collect a urine sample long enough for her to actually collect the sample. #Alzheimers #Caretaking