Author Archives: lagail41

Here’s a term I hadn’t heard but am very familiar with. I have caregiver burnout in part due to COVID-19. All these year’s I’ve been caregiving for my mother I have had little “breaks” where I could get away. Sometimes for a week other time for 2 weeks. In fact I had a mission tripContinue reading “Caregiver burnout”

Oh my goodness my mother grinds her teeth ALL DAY LONG!!!! Some times it is so loud that I have to close the door to her room! She developed this last year once she became bed ridden. At first I thought she did it out of distress, which I guess is true, but in speakingContinue reading “Grinding and gnashing of teeth!!”

Over the last week I did a little looking over my shoulder. Remembering when momma first came to live with me. At the beginning the honeymoon phase, then there was the two individuals coming together yet something was preventing it…Alzheimer’s. Then there was the never ending challenge of trying to bring order into an otherwiseContinue reading “Less stress”

This week was a long week, long because Monday was a holiday so my caregiver was off. Yes I give her the holidays because I know that I will be home. Perhaps that’s generous of me, I don’t know but I do think it is fair. So when a holiday is approaching I always tellContinue reading “Reflections”

This past week I enlisted a probate lawyer to help draw up a trust for my mother. I had a will that was done by the military last year, I had a will and testament, living will, surrogate health care designee and a springing power of attorney. What I discovered was shocking. First, the willContinue reading “Taking care of business”

This has been an emotional week for me and my family. One of my cousins, whom I am extremely close too, bid farewell to his mother yesterday. It started Monday with a text asking for prayer because she hadn’t been feeling well, then a CT scan that revealed blockage in her lower intestines followed byContinue reading “The lost of a loved one during COIVID”

Whelp, another week and still house bound…at least somewhat. I get out to go to the grocery store and in the mornings I walk my neighborhood but honestly other than that I am pretty much in. Deborah and I were concerned because momma had developed a cough. You know the kind where you have congestionContinue reading “Thankful”

Wow it’s been, what, over one month since I have been confined, restricted to the house. Of course my mother has no clue that anything has changed but I do. But to be honest it hasn’t really effected me that much. Last week, I gave Deborah the week off just to give her a breakContinue reading “Adjusting to change”

It’s been over a month now with the world in a tailspin over the COVID19 virus. By God’s grace momma and I are fine. Deborah still comes to the house and between the three of us we keep our spirits up. Momma keeps us laughing because she is still vocal and will say some crazyContinue reading “Scary Times”

Hey there, I pray you are ok in this new era of the COVID 19 virus. Momma and I are doing well. My private caregiver, Deborah, still continues to come because basically it’s just the three of us. I know that she can use the money and that she is going from my home toContinue reading “Quality of Life”