Put Your Own Oxygen Mask on First
On caregiving and refusing to disappear
Caregiving is love—but it is also relentless responsibility. Comforting Lee was entirely up to me. It was on me to calm him, to carry the emotional weight. To make the hundreds of daily decisions, both small and life-or-death (or at least it felt that way).
In reality, all I wanted some days was to sleep through the…
