About Me: Female, 54, Wentzville, MO, member since Jun 2010
I'm a disabled RN trying to keep up with everything new that I might get behind in. I am still always nursing no matter whether it's a paying job or a passing stranger that seems to need help, we get involved and the next thing you know I have another patient. It isn't
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[More] a job it's a calling.
I have been trying to recover from caregivers burnout. My parents were both so sick, mom with a stroke, dad with PTSD, bipolar, and now very angry senility. Mom has passed and I am trying to deal with the guilt as dad kicked me out two years before she passed. I know had I been there, I wouldn't have let her get sick enough, I would have noticed something wasn't right, and now dad is blaming me for her death. I'M A MESS!
[Less]
Generallly better than most days. I'm still stuck in bed and can't visit my horse even to brush her or just pet her. I can't go to the store just to get my son some sand p...