Cuando nos damos cuenta caemos en esa parte de sentimentalismo que muchas veces no es amor de hijos a padres sino ese pobrecito o pobrecita que ella o él no puede (es una manera de expresar de los que están alrededor sin participar en el cuido).
Ese cuido va más allá de cuidados médicos, aseo personal, alimentación. Es esa parte emocional que el cuidador por lealtad cae en ese círculo hasta que alguien o una ayuda terapéutica hace entrar en razón, allí es cuando comenzamos a buscar salida sin afectar al adulto en su cuido al contrario a buscar la forma de que esa dependencia disminuya esto es en el caso que el adulto en cuido esté completico físicamente pudiendo desprenderse un poco de esa dependencia ( es un poco mi historia). Es algo así como acepté mi misión pero al mismo tiempo también debo protegerme y cuidarme para poder llevar el cuido de la mejor manera y con el amor de hija que se puede dar.
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Greetings to the #Motherhood community.
On several occasions and in different communities I have participated in that are closely related to the care of parents, of them, in long-lived ages, commenting that it is not only to hear phrases like How good that you mother is with you! or Enjoy her or him as much as you can! phrases that I can not say it is wrong and make a lot of sense when they reach those ages that already depend on the children in many activities.
In the last 10 years my participation in my mother's care was based on moving to another city to take care of her for weeks at a time, with 100% attention: food, personal hygiene, company, and others... however, the idea of having her only with me at home was far away and I really ran away from it... I didn't feel prepared for such a great task.
Well, the time came, and I was the one who proposed to bring her home since I saw situations of attention very distant from what I considered should be given to them. My family loyalty called me to take that step to fulfill this mission of an unsuspected number of events that I would have to face for her overall health and well-being.
I started 2024 with my mother at home a year ago (she arrived in December 2022, starting 2023 at home) I recognized that at that time my intuition told me that the task would be big because of what I observed in her since she arrived home. By this, I do not mean that she was not loved or cared for by whoever was on duty at the time, but that it felt like a burden because now that I live it absorbs without one realizing it.
In previous lines I commented on family loyalties being that we do or stop doing out of loyalty to comply with them without thinking a little about us or as my daughter tells me we come to pamper without realizing that we are affecting the freedom of this person, they are becoming very dependent on what we are doing to their person to make them feel good and be healthy and the opposite happens. In this case, we fall there out of loyalty, for not making the older adult feel bad (or we think we are making them feel bad) or believing that doing everything to them is a way to show them the love they want to feel.
When we realize that we fall into that part of sentimentality that often is not love from children to parents but that poor little one that she or he cannot (it is a way of expressing the love of those who are around without participating in the care).
This care goes beyond medical care, personal hygiene, and feeding. It is this emotional part that the caregiver, out of loyalty, falls into this circle until someone or a therapeutic help makes him/her see reason, that is when we begin to look for a way out without affecting the adult in his/her care, on the contrary, to look for a way to diminish this dependency, this is in the case that the adult in care is physically complete and can detach a little from this dependency (this is a little bit my story). It is something like I accepted my mission but at the same time, I must also protect and take care of myself in order to be able to take care of my child in the best way and with the love of a daughter that can be given.
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