Aging Parents Should Come With a Handbook

I am my mother’s caregiver. I wasn’t supposed a caregiver, it wasn’t planned. It just somehow happened. It’s hard. In fact, caring for my mother is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Please, do not start telling me how I should feel lucky to have this time with her or how our time together is limited. I know all that. I have said those same words to others in the past, but at the time I had…