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Everything they do for me comes from their heart.
When I visited yesterday she was unable to get words out, talking gibberish. I'd witnessed this before when she was having a stroke so I had the RN check her out. She said she was ok, likely had a mini stroke. Although she's had parkinsons for 15 years she's never had the shakes but now her legs shake a lot.
She's deteriorated terribly in the last little while and I think she'll pass very soon. I have no feelings for her at all and I'm not sure what I feel right now apart from sad that she's wasted her life being a mean, nasty, manipulative narcissist. She wouldn't even lift a finger to help her own parents as it was "too much trouble". Her wishes are that she's cremated and her ashes scattered. There would be no point in a funeral or service in any event as she has no friends.
When I began to care for her I lost everything - quit my career, sold my home and moved 200km. It's hard to have to rebuild your life but now I'm retired I plan on doing some volunteer work and getting out and about. I will not waste what time I may have left.
Caregiving OTOH has no such reward beyond maybe a spiritual one of "job well done." It is done later in life, so there is no time to rebuild. The productive years of putting away money for retirement can be lost.
Personally I think responsibility passes down the line. Our parents raised us, we raise our kids. Anything going back the other direction is done from love and respect, and not obligation in the US.
I did take care of my mother for over 2 years. And as others have said, I learned that I cannot do what 3 shifts of nurses do each day. And live my life, and work to make a living, and prepare for my own retirement. Since I do not have a child who will do all this for me.
My brother reminded me that our dad used to say we kids were his retirement plan. The sad thing was, he didn't help his kids get the skills and abilities to take care of him in his old age. I think it is very selfish for parents to have children so they will be loved and then expect those children to sacrifice their future for them. If parents don't want to sacrifice their own future - or even their present - for their children, they can choose not to have children.
They both couldn't pay for college, a nice or even not so nice wedding. No vacations with the kids or grand kids. No generosity what so ever. All they had was for their "nursing home" care.
Now at the end of the day, mom is left and she has a big fat bank account ( around 1 million) that we had better not even look at, even if we are dying, because it is for her nursing home.
So I am going to honor her wishes and put her in a nursing home and she better d*** well like it because it is all my brother and I ever heard our entire lives. She made it easy.
If the love is there, a child will want to make sure a parent is taken care of. If a parent has been abusive or neglectful, how can a child even learn how to be giving and loving. Why does the parent seemed surprised when the child doesn't want to take care of the parent?
I personally feel a parent is responsible for nurturing and taking care of a child. They are responsible for making sacrifices, thinking of the child instead of themselves, loving the child, being emotionally supportive of the child, being the one person who would take a bullet for the child. If they don't do this, how can they expect the child to give them, in most cases, the last of their good years to make life better for the parent?
If we are taught to love the parent and the parent loved the child unconditionally, then we would do whatever needed to take care of the loving parent. Unfortunately, like in my family, selfishness ruled the day. And no, I will not personally take care of my mother and she has truly earned this.
im glad ismiami mentioned emotional support because that is sometimes the bulk of the carer task. caregiving seems to panic you debra, it doesnt have to.
im personally having a blast with my aunt.
oh yea, she took me in 15 years ago when my marriage blew up and i was phsycotic on hepc chemo. she nursed me back to health with the greatest of love and patience. i owe her big.
Mom was happy about my unexpected arrival but my father was not. In fact, he kept a notebook in which he recorded all the expenses that I incurred, starting with the cost of my delivery, right up through college. He never presented me with a bill, like Bernard Cooper's father did, in Cooper's memoir, "The Bill From My Father," but he made it clear that children were expensive and inconvenient.
I took care of my mother when she was dying from cancer. My father refused to let me arrange for a housekeeper or a nurse when he got dementia, so I put him in a nursing home: a very good one.
Long story short, you get what you give. Nobody should be guilted into caring for a parent simply because their parent fed and clothed them when they were young. If there's no love there, the old person is better off in a nursing home when they can't live alone any longer.
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