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Marialake Asked January 2015

Anyone else struggle with respite care?

My MIL has hospice - so I can get respite care for 3 days every month. It should be wonderful but honestly, I've used it twice in the past 12 months and...........well, it's almost worse for me. Once she is gone, I am able to start living normally again but by day three I must adjust myself to her return. So I kind of feel worse when she returns because I had a taste of freedom. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but I'm almost better keeping the pattern than interrupting it with freedom which is snatched away.

pamstegma Jan 2015
It makes total sense, and 3 days a month is not enough. Get out more, go when the nurses and aides are there, even if it's just out to the yard to unwind.

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