Thanks to MamaDaisy for her insight about taffy pull as a description of our bring torn in many directions.
Also, thanks to author Carol O'DEll with regard to her description of our "place" in life.
At a wonderful graduation celebration for an 18 year old friend last night , Mamadaisy spoke of the lack of joy of raising a parent. How very different it is than raising children.
Joyful. Or lack thereof. I do hope she will reappear here to articulate her feelings.
I think as we all write and share, we share so many similar feelings and thoughts.
Just as the very, very humid and hot air has cleared in this neck of the woods (southern Connecticut), so, too is a window of respite for this caregiver.
For the moment, and that is really all we have, the physical needs of my job are yielding to the phone call, bank coordination, applications, aide hiring, etc, etc.
Physical, no, Exhausting, yes!!
We need to chillax, to quote my 14 year old.
In the moment, unfolding into the here and now.
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