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Hey there, it's nobody in particular, podcast on Sunday sometime in April.

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It's all good.

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The the matter I wanted to talk about today was caregivers.

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That includes spouses and children who stay and give care to those around them.

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Also includes those who work in the industry.

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But particularly the biggest underserved population is spouses and children who stay.

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And I hadn't thought of myself as a caregiver per se.

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But it so happens that I have more than a passing acquaintance with chronic life limiting

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illness.

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My late wife died from the complication of long term lupus treatments and the effects

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of the disease.

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And there were the trips to the doctors and clinics and serious chemo drugs and pulses

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of steroids to relieve flare ups.

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Well then there also was her depression and migraines.

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Today I count those five years as an introduction, an introduction to a world filled with overseeing

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the well being of another human soul and their earthly vessel.

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All valentine here hours of course.

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All volunteer hours.

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Not abandoning the emission of caregiver or caregiver.

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But this shits hard.

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And the intro course didn't cover the present circumstances or prepare one for the times

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when it seems that you've been abandoned.

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Today I wonder how we can find a multitude of caregivers and somehow help them cope

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or recover.

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How can we find innovative respite means or methods to serve those who are locked into

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seven days of service 24 hours a day?

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The group, I didn't realize I was in until I did.

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How could someone have reached me?

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Well how could someone have reached me?

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I sincerely do not know.

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What I do know is I had to ask for help.

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I had to ask.

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I had to be at my wit's end before I asked for help.

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It was better after I asked for help.

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I wasn't sure how to ask.

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How can we reach someone to tell them it's okay to ask for help?

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It isn't abandoning the mission.

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It's preserving the mission with support.