{"id":26550,"date":"2020-11-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:15:53","slug":"november-is-national-family-caregivers-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/november-is-national-family-caregivers-month\/","title":{"rendered":"November is National Family Caregivers Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/caregiver-quote-image.png\" alt class=\"wp-image-12400\" width=\"362\" height=\"284\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>November is also&nbsp;the&nbsp;time&nbsp;across our nation for us to honor our family caregivers as well as to recognize the challenges that family caregivers face&nbsp;and how they manage these challenges day and night as they offer care around the clock!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is just so much that our family caregivers do!\u202f For many of you, caregiving can truly be&nbsp;a 24 hours&nbsp;a day, seven days a week job.\u202f You have many other roles besides giving your loved one hands-on care (which is a huge role in itself). I sat down as I began to write this article and tried to come up with a list of&nbsp;all&nbsp;that you do. It seems never-ending.\u202f There is the \u2018big stuff\u2019 like:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing medical care, insurance claims, and bill payments. \u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Managing the&nbsp;ever-changing&nbsp;medications.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Going with the patient to doctor appointments, running personal errands, cooking, cleaning, and doing other housekeeping chores.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Finding doctors and specialists, and accessing information that may be hard to find.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Learning about any new symptoms or side effects and asking for help to treat them.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Helping your loved one not only communicate with the medical team but also helping them to connect with family, friends, neighbors, and community members.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Your job also includes giving emotional and\u202fspiritual support, such as helping your loved one deal with feelings and making hard decisions while all along being a companion to your loved one.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>And OTHER \u201cbig stuff\u201d like maintaining your home, your life, your family life, your work, your sanity, and your health! It is never-ending.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, I got a bit of a headache trying to list all the things that just came to the top of my mind in remembering all that you do!!! Let\u2019s face it.&nbsp;<strong>ALL<\/strong>&nbsp;of your roles are dealing with \u2018big stuff\u2019. You face challenges day and night\u2026EVERY&nbsp;day and night.\u202f&nbsp;<strong>Caregivers, you are a mighty healing force in our world and in the life of your loved one.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026.please hear this:&nbsp; we deeply respect and honor you. During the month of November, we join with others around our country to recognize your enormous contribution as a caregiver. You are vitally important&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU for all you are and all you do!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<p>Lucretia Hurley-Browning, MDiv, MS, is a guest writer whose recent background includes Chaplain of&nbsp;&nbsp;Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital and the Director of Juniper Tree Counseling Center. She is a therapist and ordained United Methodist Minister. Currently she is a writer by day, a reader by night, and is passionate about living life meaningfully with a good dose of fun.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oncolink.org\/2020\/11\/november-is-national-family-caregivers-month\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November is also&nbsp;the&nbsp;time&nbsp;across our nation for us to honor our family caregivers as well as to recognize the challenges that family caregivers face&nbsp;and how they manage these challenges day and night as they offer care around the clock!&nbsp; There is just so much that our family caregivers do!\u202f For many of you, caregiving can truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45491,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions\/45491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}