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I Have To Stop Giving A Sh*t

I’ve been pretty absent recently dealing with a big chunk of burnout. Not diabetes burnout, but caregiver burnout. While I really have to do very little for mom, there are a lot of things that roll into the caregiver picture, at least for me.

Always “on” – the monitors are always on. I’m always listening, [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, caregiver, challenges, depression, family, isolation, Mental Health, mhsm, support | 10 comments | 338 views

Finding Morpheus

** those following along the last few months know who Morpheus refers to… for those who don’t it is how I refer to my psychologist in my blog posts describing my experiences in talk therapy

One of the main benefits of social media is that it allows people to connect, to draw on the joint [...]

December 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, caregiver, challenges, depression, dsma, epatient, family, HCSM, Mental Health, mhsm, S4PM | 5 comments | 528 views

Loss Of An Old Friend

** taking a slight detour from my account of dealing with my depression to talk a little about my mom

Those who have read my blog for a while will know that I am a live-in caregiver for my mother.  Two years ago, we were beginning to have serious End of Life discussions and were [...]

December 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advocacy, caregiver, challenges, family, isolation, support | 6 comments | 335 views

And Then It Became So Hard

** You’ll want to read That Fateful Saturday and It Would Be So Easy first, otherwise this might not make much sense

So I Chose.

I was still terribly depressed, but no longer at rock bottom.  I was able to see that if I wanted things to get better, I was going to have to [...]

December 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, challenges, depression, diabetes, dsma, family, Mental Health, mhsm, stigma, support | 4 comments | 352 views

Diabetes! Stay Backstage A While

I’ve been pretty absent from November’s Dia-palooza this year…  not really sure why, but so many people are doing so many good things awareness-wise that I doubt I could add much.  I think I’d just be saying the same things in a different way…

And honestly, the destruction left in the wake diabetes seems to [...]

November 7th, 2012 | Category: challenges, epatient, family | Leave a comment | 116 views
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