If, as Woody Allen says 90% of life is showing up, I think we can draw a parallel and say a big percentage of our experience as family caregivers is our attitude. I’m not going to hazard a guess and put a number to it. Woody Allen is a comic and was going for a laugh. Being a family caregiver i...
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Attitude
Richard Anderson
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 04:50 PM -
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Cathrynn
Thursday, September 06, 2007 at 03:18 PMthat is a lovely poem, Suzanne - I love it! I am endeavouring to get my mother to face a wheelchair right now but nothing will budge her........we could have such new horizons if she would succumb......it is so difficult as it must have been so difficult for you with your husband as much younger people....
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Suzanne:
I loved your poem. Life is indeed a matter of attitude. We work so hard as caregivers to help our chronically ill and/or disabled loved ones, and it's all too easy to get stuck in a rut, doing things the same way, just because! We can only change ourselves -- our attitude -- not the situation (in many cases) and not our loved one.
Richard Anderson
President, Well Spouse Association