8 Strategies to Follow as a Care-Giver
As spouses or significant others, being a partner in each other’s health care can cause great stress.
In my childhood memories, my mother was the one who took care of me when I got sick. She also took care of my father when he became ill, but when she developed health issues, my father rarely acted as a caregiver.
Because of this, I didn’t question my first husband’s expectation that I go to the store for chicken noodle soup and applesauce when we both came down with the flu one year.
But today, my husband and I work as partners in our health.
In our household, we are dealing with his diabetes and his stage four renal failure that has led to peritoneal dialysis.
Ever since I met my husband, he has had diabetes (a thing you have, not something that defines you) and we have been conscious of carbs and the importance of counting carbs. We have, for the most part, had his numbers under control.
Enter stage four renal failure and the necessity to start dialysis. We weighed our options and took the route of peritoneal dialysis to maintain our active…
