My 80 year old father had a heart attack last Saturday. He had angioplasty and then acted as though nothing happened. It was like he had some illness and it got cured. He is overweight, fairly immobile from lack of exercise, overeating, and he does not seem to get it. It is not so much [...]

My neighbor’s father died last week. He never came home from his last trip to the hopital. He went to a home and then was taken back to the hospital to be put on morphine for his last few days. Mike had kept him at home for as long as he could. His father told [...]

I knew I was losing my professor position when my aunt told me that she was diagnosed with cancer again. She had just lost her husband after he did not recover from a surgery a few weeks before she found out. There was no thought about how I was going to get back and forth [...]

I was working on my taxes last week. As I was going over all of my expenses, I realized I spent thousands of dollars on gas, food, and necessities while caring for my aunt. It made me think about family members who care for someone for longer than 8 months. I asked my tax person [...]