This Site is Dedicated to my Mom

This is a picture of my mother in better times, and it's probably how she would most like to be remembered. Just a few short years after this photo was taken, all of her real troubles began.

I decided to create this blog in her honor to highlight the many changes and challenges that both she and I had experienced when life began to become more difficult for her. I chose to care for my mother at home, lived the twilight years with her, and am glad that I did.

Eventually all of us will have to face our own aging and challenging life experiences whether we want to accept it or not. Eventually all of us will have to make some hard decisions, whether for ourselves or someone else. How we approach, handle, and follow through will determine how it will all turn out. If you are a strong person like me, then you can likely handle such a challenge.

Depending on our own particular states in life can determine how well we will be able to face our own mortality. The greater difficulty, however, arises when someone you love needs help with their own, and becomes dependent on you for their needs. Through this venue, it is my hope that I may be able to help those who are first noticing changes with a senior or elderly parent or relative (the beginning stages), those who are currently wrestling with harder issues (independence vs dependence), those dealing with health and family issues (at-home care or nursing home), and particularly those who do choose the challenges and responsibilities of at-home care. It can be overwhelming since it encompasses so many levels, but I am here to say that it IS do-able because I've been there already. I've lived it. I'm not the first to do so, and I am definitely not the last.

Included in my story and incorporated in this blog will be helpful information and access to other sites that had been helpful to me, and I'm sure will be helpful for you.