Caring for My Mom Is Killing Me

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Cassie's health is in dire shape and getting worse as she attempts to care for her elderly mother. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM.
0:10.0	Welcome to the program. Yes. Hi, Dr. Laura and hi, Lily bug. Thank you. I'm kind of.
0:26.0	Extremely stressed and hurt. I like to explain this very quickly.
0:34.0	No, don't explain it quickly. Explain it very clearly. I will try. Okay, my mom had a massive stroke two months ago.
0:48.0	I happened to live with her and I was recuperating from a massive heart attack and COVID.
0:58.0	Yes, it's been awful. So I live with her and she had the stroke and now she is home recuperating with a left arm paralysis paralyzed and partial left leg.
1:22.0	So I am the one that has to care for her now. Well, you are aware that there are companies that have all levels of nursing care, etc.
1:38.0	With your state of health, the last thing you should be doing is being her full-time caretaker. That's foolish.
1:46.0	It is because of insurance. We don't want to sell all my jewelry and all my cowboy boots before I put myself in a position where I could have another heart attack.
2:02.0	Yeah, figure it out. I'm looking. Do whatever you need to do budget for it. This is life and death on your part we're talking about.
2:16.0	Yes. Stop with excuses and figure it out.
2:26.0	Okay, if you die tomorrow of another heart attack, who's going to take care of her?
2:34.0	Nobody is going to take care of me. If you die tomorrow of a heart attack, who's going to take care of her?
2:44.0	My sister probably. Good. Then drive her to your sister's house. This is life and death for you.
2:54.0	Yeah. Yeah.
3:04.0	Well, I could see that I could visually see that that's what needs to happen.
3:16.0	Before the time being.
3:20.0	No, it could happen to my good happen tomorrow.
3:25.0	Call your sister and say had a massive heart attack. I'm still recovering from COVID. I could go anytime with stress.
3:33.0	Would you like me to drive her there or can you come and pick her up? I can't do both right now.
3:39.0	I could die and present it that dramatically.
3:44.0	And let's get the family mobilized and do something else. Now, you can come up with a million more problems to stand in the way of that.
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