It all started with rubbery legs. My husband, Antonio, worked as a cook—on his feet all day—and would follow that with a couple hours of hard exercise. He was fit and healthy, a regular runner who didn’t have any vices beyond actually enjoying exercising and preferring fruit over dessert. So when he started feeling a …
It would be easier to think that, generally speaking, people are just assholes and this is why they say the absolute wrong things to those going through a life-changing experience. Asshole-ery is the knee jerk response, the unbidden assumption that surfaces when you’re caught off guard, searching for a logical reason why this person would …
When my husband was diagnosed with an Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT) and I became the caregiver for an ATRT cancer patient, I didn’t know what it was, much less 5 things about it. But through his journey as an adult survivor, I’ve come to learn entirely too much about these fuckers—and do not excuse …
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I’m willing to bet there’s not a single caregiver out there who hasn’t been overwhelmed by GUILT at some point during the journey. Whether you’re caring for an elderly parent, a loved one going through cancer or other life-changing diagnosis, a child with special needs . . . hell, you could be taking care of …
I have been caring for my husband through cancer for 14 years, and it’s killing me. I am burned out. Exhausted, depleted, angry, sad and empty. I am also a wife, a mother of two young children, a daughter of two aging parents and a working professional, and outside of those – I don’t know …
