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<blockquote data-quote="Sucre Bleu" data-source="post: 933343" data-attributes="member: 204443"><p>My 2 youngest daughters both take turns as my "Carer". I have no issue with using that terminology.</p><p>They have done so since they were quite young, and their experience with hypos, testing, insulin, my other meds, eye drop regimes etc is topnotch. I am very grateful to them.</p><p>In over 20 years of marriage, I don't think my ex had a clue about anything to do with my health, that is one of the reasons he is my ex!!!</p><p>I must agree with <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/catladynz.43498/" target="_blank"><u>CatLadyNZ</u></a> if it wasn't for my blindness, and some of the pesky complications I have, I wouldn't need a Carer to oversee uncomplicated Type 1.</p><p>My view is it is most often family members who "care", and isn't that a two way street, they may scrape me off the floor and wipe the drool from my face, all the while doing blood sugars, deftly squirting ghastly vanilla gel in my mouth, while I do my bit, listening to their issues, folding laundry, showing that I care and love them, as they show me by their actions.</p><p>Sorry to the OP, sounds like you are having a bit of a burnout in your role, right now. It would be great if you could take a break now and then. Only you will know the best stable times to slip off and for how long. And I am not talking treatments at a fancy spa, sometime a simple coffee with a friend does a world of good, and have a huge slice of cake with it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sucre Bleu, post: 933343, member: 204443"] My 2 youngest daughters both take turns as my "Carer". I have no issue with using that terminology. They have done so since they were quite young, and their experience with hypos, testing, insulin, my other meds, eye drop regimes etc is topnotch. I am very grateful to them. In over 20 years of marriage, I don't think my ex had a clue about anything to do with my health, that is one of the reasons he is my ex!!! I must agree with [URL='http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/catladynz.43498/'][U]CatLadyNZ[/U][/URL] if it wasn't for my blindness, and some of the pesky complications I have, I wouldn't need a Carer to oversee uncomplicated Type 1. My view is it is most often family members who "care", and isn't that a two way street, they may scrape me off the floor and wipe the drool from my face, all the while doing blood sugars, deftly squirting ghastly vanilla gel in my mouth, while I do my bit, listening to their issues, folding laundry, showing that I care and love them, as they show me by their actions. Sorry to the OP, sounds like you are having a bit of a burnout in your role, right now. It would be great if you could take a break now and then. Only you will know the best stable times to slip off and for how long. And I am not talking treatments at a fancy spa, sometime a simple coffee with a friend does a world of good, and have a huge slice of cake with it :) [/QUOTE]
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