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Sharing Insightful comments from the “Caregiving as a Parent” Discussion. No reductive summarising or misrepresentation of the reflections here! Especially when the question posed is “What do people get wrong about your caregiving as a parent?”
mary beth kaplan🪶shared: “I’d say now that we are a year and a half post-leukemia treatment for our son, that we should be "back to normal." It was a very long recovery and treatment phase. He had multiple complications. I feel like I am finally only now beginning to unfurl and process so much.”
- “It's a kind of PTSD I think, we are 6 months clear now and I still have a lot of muscle-memory” Cooky Howitt
- “Survival mode first, processing later. This makes sense that it’s hitting you now.” Denise Servais
- “Totally this! The comedown is always a surprise when it eventually hits you.. that little chink of light when your mind finally lets go and the body suddenly says "hang on a minute what about me….?!”” Haley Haddow
- “It does take such a long time to recover, doesn't it? And it's a separate process for our loved one to recover versus ourselves as the caregiver.”Serena Menken
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