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Caregiving? What's in a Word?

Carol O'Dell
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I am the author of MOTHERING MOTHER: A Daughter's Humorous and...

Carol O'Dell

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
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We've now turned the words "Care Giver" into a compound word.Caregiver or caregiving (even though spell check doesn't like it one bit) is now one word. Two words smeared together. Apropos. Two lives smeared together. I'd like to think of two lives as a Jackson Pollack--layer aft...
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    Dorian Martin
    Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 04:32 PM

    Hi, Carol -

     

    Your comments are definitely thought provoking. In my Mom's case, I believe Picasso would be the more appropriate artist since comments, ideas and memories seem to be funkily put together in a scrambled scene that rarely makes sense to the mass, but instead is understandable by only a few.

     

    And your comments also remind me about the concept of family - both the family that one is born into, but also the family that one chooses. Sometimes, the latter seems to do the best in providing care.

     

    Thanks for joining this forum!

     

    Dorian

     

     

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