Perseverance

"I have not failed.  I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work." Thomas Edison

That is a remarkable attitude to have in the face of what most humans would call failure.  We, as caregivers, will have many failures -- just as all humans do.  We will fail to meet all of the needs of our loved one in ways he/she would like.  We will fail to be as patient and loving as we would like to be.  We will fail because we are too tired to go on.  Let us not consider these as failures, but as ways we have found that do not work for us.  We are doing the best we can do -- the best any human can do.  Let us be assured of that.