A Note of Thanks

Thank you to all who care.

Dear Family Caregiver,

Thank you.

Thank you for your diligence, vigilance, compassion and advocacy.

Thank you for all you do, day in and day out.

Thank you for your commitment to becoming the best expert on your caree’s disease process as possible.

Thank you for swallowing the fear and providing the care.

Thank you for speaking up and speaking out.

Thank you for supporting other family caregivers so they feel the comfort of your kind company.

Thank you for doing all you can today to give yourself a good future.

Thank you for your sense of humor which helps everyone cope.

Thank you for doing your best as you navigate some of your life’s worst days.

Thank you for being okay with being imperfect which allows us the grace to embrace our own imperfections.

Thank you for your decisions, your strategies and your plans.

Thank you for your compassion and patience.

Thank you for challenging the system to be a better system for all carees and family caregivers.

Thank you for your beautiful act of accepting mortality, which gives us the courage to accept mortality when it arrives in our family.

Thank you.

You make our world better.

(Image by Myriams-Fotos from Pixabay.)

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