![]() ![]() Article content ‘I started feeling like the last 20 years of my life had been sacrificed, and those are just awful thoughts.’ This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It’s a cluster of small headaches, and Johnson’s frustration will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has ever had to provide care for a challenging loved one. Once they arrive, there’s negotiating the use of a wheelchair, reorganizing the tubing and making sure that the poorly designed wheelchair isn’t interfering with their various medical and personal accoutrements - all while the long-standing tensions between mother and daughter threaten to bubble over. First, there’s supporting her mother’s weight while they gingerly make it from the house’s door into the car, then there’s the untangling of her mom’s oxygen tube, the folding of the walker. Early in the book, Johnson remembers one of her last trips to the mall with her mother, and how so much planning and effort was required for a simple run to Sears. Article contentīefore the death of her mother, Johnson’s relationship with her mom played out in tense spurts after more than a decade of caring for her ailing father, Johnson felt worn-down and depleted when the time came to look after her mother. ![]() ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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