Patient, Patience, Pamela.
- Surviving Breast Cancer
- 9 minutes ago
- 1 min read
By Pam Mendelsohn
The caretaker:
‘Role Reversal’ - a succinct phrase that never covers a complex dynamic.
Daughter:
Bury your despair, you’re her lifeline now.
Aide:
Transfer, toilet, try, try, Try.
Survivor:
Both removed. Radiation skin damage. Mile wide scar when Aesthetic meant nothing.
Patient, Patience, Pamela.
After a trying day, I knelt on her bed and hugged her for a while, comforting us both. She knows me. She wants to help. Dementia repeatedly forgives. I had no time for cancer. So it left me. Only time for love for my mother now.
Family:
We’re resting.
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