Too Much Caregiving...time for me.

Sorry I didn't keep posting.  Things were getting too personal, and I decided to do my writing in private.

My Mother died Oct. 31, 2009.

On that same day, my boyfriend's kidneys failed and he started emergency dialysis.  They knew his
kidney's weren't doing well, but did not know why, and did not expect so quick of failure.

He started hemo dialysis, and then switched to peritoneal dialysis a few years later.

Now, 5 years after my Mother died my caregiving days are over.  It's a long story, which I may
or may not write here.

It is so difficult being a care giver.  It is so easy for all the advice "take care of yourself", but
it's generally not really possible to do.

I don't know what I would have done differently.  It's so easy to second guess what I did, what
I should have done, but no one is perfect and I did the best I could.

To all you care givers out there, bless you.