Facing Our Fears

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

As caregivers, we will be called to do those things we think we cannot do.  I have always been squeamish about things medical people do, and, yet, as caregivers, we will find ourselves doing some thing for another's body that we never dreamed we would do.  We will make decisions on behalf of the other in areas we did not consider before.  We will continue to show up for the other person, despite the fact that the person we knew and loved is so little there any more.  We will do things we thought we could not do, and we will be better people for having done so.