Time out of society

"Life does not have to be whitewashed in order to be beautiful." Emmanuel

The isolation of being a caregiver is one of the hardest aspects.  I was talking with a fellow caregiver recently, and she quoted another caregiver of calling her caregiving time, "Her time out of society".  That really rang true for me.  Home health aides cancel coming, and then there is the reality of how much harder it is to go anywhere and take the person with dementia.  It takes far longer, is more encumbered, and one has to be alert for their safety.  So, sometimes, the simplest answer seems to be to just stay home.  If that is the case, then it helps us to be aware of the truth in the above quote.  Perhaps not everyone is familiar with the concept of 'whitewashing', but it was done before paint was as available to beautify and preserve walls and buildings.  Our life may some days not seem beautified by ease of exterior circumstances, but it is important for us to look for and see the beauty.