Inside Caregiving
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My Father – Part I: Learning to Be the Adult
Seven years of studying cancer in an American lab did not prepare me to face the real deal when it hit my father – thrice. His decades of smoking first led to a diagnosis of bladder cancer. It was minor and he recovered from the surgery, only to develop an aggressive laryngeal cancer less than…
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Caring for the Caregiver: Yes, That Means You
Here’s the thing nobody warns you about: if you’re not careful, you might end up more tired—possibly even more depressed—than the person you’re caring for. (True story, and no, there’s no trophy for Most Exhausted.) Whether you’re family, hired help turned honorary family member, or a senior spouse juggling marriage and medicine, the caregiver’s chair…
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When Do You Become A Parent?
When do you become a parent? When you give birth? When you raise a child? There are other ways of becoming a parent too. When you mentor someone at work. When you become a pet parent. When you nurture young minds in school. Or it may just come up on you unnoticed. Like it did…