Hey there, it's nobody in particular, podcast on Sunday sometime in April.
It's all good.
The the matter I wanted to talk about today was caregivers.
That includes spouses and children who stay and give care to those around them.
Also includes those who work in the industry.
But particularly the biggest underserved population is spouses and children who stay.
And I hadn't thought of myself as a caregiver per se.
But it so happens that I have more than a passing acquaintance with chronic life limiting
illness.
My late wife died from the complication of long term lupus treatments and the effects
of the disease.
And there were the trips to the doctors and clinics and serious chemo drugs and pulses
of steroids to relieve flare ups.
Well then there also was her depression and migraines.
Today I count those five years as an introduction, an introduction to a world filled with overseeing
the well being of another human soul and their earthly vessel.
All valentine here hours of course.
All volunteer hours.
Not abandoning the emission of caregiver or caregiver.
But this shits hard.
And the intro course didn't cover the present circumstances or prepare one for the times
when it seems that you've been abandoned.
Today I wonder how we can find a multitude of caregivers and somehow help them cope
or recover.
How can we find innovative respite means or methods to serve those who are locked into
seven days of service 24 hours a day?
The group, I didn't realize I was in until I did.
How could someone have reached me?
Well how could someone have reached me?
I sincerely do not know.
What I do know is I had to ask for help.
I had to ask.
I had to be at my wit's end before I asked for help.
It was better after I asked for help.
I wasn't sure how to ask.
How can we reach someone to tell them it's okay to ask for help?
It isn't abandoning the mission.
It's preserving the mission with support.