Yep. I'm also my mom's care giver and so I balance that and motherhood while my dad works. I was also balancing a job I just now quit, because I can't do all three. I'm 30 years old in case you're curious.

Death Candy wrote:Yep. I'm also my mom's care giver and so I balance that and motherhood while my dad works. I was also balancing a job I just now quit, because I can't do all three. I'm 30 years old in case you're curious.

can I ask about your mom

Sure.

is she sick?

Disabled. Her spinal cord is twisted or something like that. And she can't get an operation to fix it because there is a higher chance that she'll become paralyzed rather than fixed.

I didn't know a spinal cord can get twisted... I hope she isn't in pain

I believe its the spinal cord its what I remember. Unfortunately she's in a lot of pain and is on like four or five different meds. She also has chronic coughing and there's something wrong with her wrists I can't quite remember what.

wow, I'm so sorry but at least she's on less meds then my mom... the coughing and the wrist doesn't sound related

No that's the good news. She smokes that's why the coughing, but I'm not sure about the wrists. I think its carpal tunnel. She has to sit in either her rocking chair or the computer desk chair. And when we have the money we have to get her a recliner to sleep in because it is getting harder for her to sleep in a bed. She has to sleep downstairs too.

but don't she have a headboard to prop pillows up so she can sleep in the the bed. When my shunt needed to be revised I got this really bad headache that only lessened when I slept sitting up so my mom propped pillows up so. Whatever she is sleeping on right now cannot be comfortable.