Saturday, February 23, 2008

What Caregivers need this blog?

Accountants, marketing executives, mid-level managers, real estate agents, teachers, computer programmers, truck drivers, salespeople, mechanics, welders, journalists, editors, secretaries, loggers, college professors -- anyone who always knew nursing wasn't for them, but now needs to know what nurses know. This caregiving blog is for you! You know who you are.

If you are lurking about in the blogosphere after work, or during lunch hour, to see what you could find about arthritis, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, lung disease, diabetes, or how to get your elderly parents to stop smoking and eating fat, this caregiving blog is for you! You are in the early stages of caring for your aging parents who still live at home and care for themselves, but things are changing. They visit the doctor more than the grandkids. You wonder about their safety behind the wheel (not to mention, the other people on the road). And what about all those pills they take? How do they keep track of them? In short, you worry.

Or maybe you were looking around because Mom moved in with you a few years after Dad died, and you just wanted to get away for a while. She's taking a nap and the teenagers are at school. This is your chance to sit down, have a cup, and take some time for yourself.

Then there are those of you who desperately, and perhaps suddenly, need to know the nuts and bolts of caring for a disabled, maybe even bed ridden elderly parent or other loved one. You are overwhelmed.

I am here to help. I have many years of home health experience where I helped people in these same situations every day. That's why I know you can do it if you have the right information. I have seen people go from clueless to competent on a regular basis. If you are feeling overwhelmed (or even just whelmed), this caregiving blog is for you.

I am here.
Sue Ellen

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