Dealing with an elderly parent can be a Jekyll and Hyde experience for family guardians. On the other hand, increasing responsibilities ramp up caregiver stress and heightens tension within the family. Tension and stress increment when the parental figure is keeping up an occupation, tending to his or her own particular youngsters, drives a dynamic […]
For quality attendant care, first you have to assess how many hours a day you require personal assistance, and then you have to come up with a way to pay for it. Next you need to find people willing to work for you, and it helps if they’re not criminals. Once you’ve got all of […]
“In the 1960s, TV celebrity Ed Sullivan featured a Chinese talent artist who demonstrated the careful balance and timing of spinning porcelain plates atop thin, wooden sticks. The key was to start spinning a stack of plates one at a time and then dash from plate to plate keeping each one in motion to prevent […]
by Claire Webster I woke up this morning looking forward to attending a very good friend’s birthday dinner that was taking place this evening in addition to popping into a fundraising event benefitting youth at risk. Instead, I’m lying in bed after arriving at the ER by ambulance, having every part of my heart analyzed, […]
CreditReynaldo Leal for The Texas Tribune Email Share Tweet Save More Sometimes, before I interview new patients, while I’m waiting for them to be transported from the emergency department to the medical floor, I play a game. I look through their lab tests. I peruse their imaging studies. I read other doctors’ notes and recent […]
