Life After Caregiving
A Journey Through Pain To Peace
Hello! Welcome to a brutally honest look at the trials of being a caregiver to a parent and then having to find yourself again at 40.
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Hi, I’m Emily. I spent the last three years caring for my father, Richard, who had advanced Parkinson’s. When you are the primary caregiver for an ailing parent, you give up a part of yourself to them. Every decision you make has to be measured against the impact it will have on them. It is a true role reversal. You spend all of your time with them and then when they are gone, how do you just turn it off? How do you go from spending every day of your life worrying and caring for them to just going back to how your life was before? I honestly have no idea, but I am going to take you on that journey with me. This will be a place to share the story of my dad and the last three years of our lives together. It will be a place to share the pain of loss and the peace that can be found through that pain.
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