Hello all I am new here and am thankful to have found this forum. I am 44 and I am full time, live in caregiver to my elderly parents (87 & 86...
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My father has a few dollars in the bank, around $30k. He lives with me in my home and does contribute "rent money," which I greatly appre...
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I have been a caregiver to my parents for about 6 years, my father is in the last stages of Alzheimer so he is now in a nursing home.I take care of ...
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You are dispatched to the address of a residence where an elderly gentleman lives with his 2-3 sons. The sons are well known to law enforcement. While juveniles, they have done several...
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I am giving this a try because I'm not quite sure what else to do. My story condensed is this. I live with a parent who is 71 yrs old and has suffer...
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I found a really interesting article on this by Kelly Grayson, and wondered if any of the rest of you had ever heard of this, or had used it in the field...
http://www.ems1.com/ems-...
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Hi there, I am a caregiver newbie and also a mother of five, three children with adhd, with one having Bipolar and other two having mood disorders. ...
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Well, sort of.
As my profile indicates, I've been a caregiver to some degree or another for about fifteen years. Given I'm not yet thirty, thi...
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Hi Everyone,
I don't have MS, but my wife does. I'd gladly swap legs with her if I thought it would help, I want so much for her to be rid of t...
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Is anyone feeling like their always getting blamed because of having MS? I feel like I am always the scape goat for anything that isn't going my h...
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my son is addicted to Dihydrocodeinehe took a lot of them as he has built a tolerance i thik he takes about 40 at a time has anyone weened of these ...
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This is something that's been bothering me for awhile, and I'd like to get other people's input.
Both my parents and my husband were hospitaliz...
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I am a mother of a 18 yr old boy that suffers from Traumatic Brain Injury caused from being severally shaken at 8 months of age by a b/f at the time while u...
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Has anyone seen this show -I didn't know I was pregnant? Seems rather odd that women would not know they were pregnant. I mean aren't there obvious signs that would clue people in befo...
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I've been caring for my mom since March 2008 after a stroke. Her memory is not great as well as other limitations, so I work fulltime at my job and caring for m...
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Sorry for the long post. This is my 1st time here and I'm looking for some advice.
I'm 33 and live in Oregon with my husband and 6 year old son. I operate ...
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I don't know if this is going in the right forum, but I will place it in the BLS section because it has to do with ALL EMS and transport units.
you know that little tool box that we ...
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I just started a caregiver job in April in the desperate need of a job to support my family and to get my foot in the door of the whole healthcare job world. I ...
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Hi everyone--
I haven't posted here before but I feel like I need to get a few things out. I'm a caregiver four days per week (for 8 hours a day) for a woma...
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Hello, I'm new here.
Before I begin, My grandmother is nearly deaf, refuses to wear a hearing aid, she has really bad dementia from a sroke and generally sh...
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I feel I just cant handle my nearly 90 year old mam any longer. As an only child growing up she was always in terrible form to me and my dad, everything was on...
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My brother has bee an epileptic since he was 9 years old. He's now 65 and lives with my mother who is 92. He needs someone to watch him because he passes out a...
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Last sunday was my sons 4th Birthday.
My friend Bobbie brought her 2 boys out. The little one was with us all day, first to the fire station, then down to the park and out on the rock...
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hello to you all ten years ago i was expecting a beautifull healthy daughter as i thought anyway but she was born with spinabiffida and water on the brain for t...
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Does anyone know if there are any studies showing other ways of immobilization besides supine position?
I'd like to present something to my supervisor and see what she thinks.
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