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For many family caregivers, the question each day is "how do I survive caregiving." Today, we're going to share not only how to "survive" caregiving, but how to survive with Sanity and a Sense of Humor. Our guest is going to share Real life stories, practical tips, and how healing humor will help you communicate better with your loved one.
After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jim found himself overnight in the Reverse Role of his Parents Parent.
In ten years of caregiving, he's learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father's deafness and his mother's dementia. Through it all Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor...and in the process he forged a deeper, more intimate relationship with his parents.
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Good Word For Caregivers
God cares for care givers. Remember, he's one, too. I remember a song from my younger years that said, "No one understands like Jesus. He's a friend beyond compare. Meet Him at the throne of mercy. He's waiting for you there," and what I learned in my younger years that that was true, even now in my older years, I find it to be so. That he's the friend who understands like nobody else.
Maybe you don't feel that anybody can understand what you're going through, and you may be right. There are people who are not in your situations, so they really can't quite understand, but I will tell you there is somebody who feels it with you. He feels it all and He, as a caregiver, understands. He knows. He knows. In fact, He tells us, "Greater love has no one than this, than he lay down his life for his friends." Well, He did that in his carry, and maybe you feel like you're laying down your life for this one that you care for so much, or you're giving so much of yourself.
Well, understand that you can gain strength and energy, help and grace, and He is the one who can give it to you. So, don't forget that. You see, you're His friend, and as a friend, He wants to help you. Let Him help you, dear friend, right now, today. God cares for caregivers. Remember, He's one, too.
Full Transcript
Welcome back to Coffee with Jon. Today, we’re having coffee with Jim Comer. After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Jim found himself overnight in the reverse role of his parents’ parent. In 10 years of caregiving, he’s learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father’s deafness, and his mother’s dementia. Through it all, Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor, and in the process, he forged a deeper and more intimate relationship with his parents. Jim, welcome to the show.
Jim: You always make me sound so much better than I really am. I was listening to it, and all of a sudden, I was kind of thrown back to February the 20th, 1996, when I was sound asleep in my apartment out in Los Angeles, where I was working as a speech writer for a CEO, and I get this call from my parents’ next door neighbor in Dallas. I’m sound asleep. I reach for the phone and I hear the voice of the neighbor who has never called me in 34 years.
Jon: Wow.
Jim: And in that one, when I heard her name: Lisa Huff, I went totally awake and in two seconds, I was awake, and I knew the next sentence was gonna be terrible, and she’s telling me that my father is wandering around in the front yard in a daze, and she thinks he’s having a stroke, and of course, she was right.
Jon: Wow.
Jim: And within 10 hours,
