Take Care Time - The Tales and Exhales of Caregivers

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She noticed the mail piling up. The car that never left the driveway. The porch light burning through the night. Gracie knows exactly what she's seeing — because six years ago, she was Sharon. In Episode 2 of Out of Order, one neighbor's banana bread sets off a quiet chain reaction that reaches all the way to a daughter deployed four thousand miles from home.

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Betsy Arakawa died first. Alone, searching her own symptoms online, while caring for her husband. Six days later, Gene Hackman's pacemaker recorded its last beat. In Episode 1 of Out of Order, we meet Sharon and Martin — and ask the question caregivers rarely let themselves ask: what happens if you're the one who goes first?

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Delores had her say. Now it's our turn. In the first-ever Exhale, we step out from behind the story to talk about what Wait, Did They Say Hospice? really meant — and answer your questions about hospice, grief, and the living piece.

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Delores has one more thing to say. And the pastor is only getting most the story right. In the finale of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, we learn what she got to keep, what she left behind in three unexpected places, and why she wants you to know hospice was never about giving up.

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Jerome, the social worker, arrived with no binder, no checklist, and one question nobody had thought to ask yet. Hannah. Who is taking care of you? In Episode 3 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, the furniture moves, the hospital bed arrives, and Delores watches her daughters do the most extraordinary ordinary thing she has ever seen.

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She arrived with a canvas bag, a blood pressure cuff, and the good tissues — the soft kind with the lotion built in. Patricia Osei had knocked on eight hundred doors just like this one. In Episode 2 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice?, hospice stops being a word and becomes a woman standing on Delores's porch.

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She is narrating from inside her own casket. And she has a lot to say. Meet Delores — a woman in her late sixties who gardened too aggressively, raised two very different daughters, and is now looking back on the day a single word changed everything. Episode 1 of Wait, Did They Say Hospice? begins where all good stories do. At the end.

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