For All the Caregivers

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Caregiving has always been hard work … and heart work. It has always been challenging, rewarding, grueling and life-giving. It has always been work worth doing, and work whose worth is challenged or hard to quantify. And adding COVID to the mix didn’t help. This episode is filled with stories from caregivers — people who were thrust into this role by COVID or found the role further complicated by COVID. It is a reminder that you are not alone, even when you are bone-achingly lonely. It’s a piece of recognition and appreciation for all of you. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think people tell me a lot to take care of myself and do self-care, and that's awesome,
0:10.2	and thank you for that.
0:12.8	But a bubble bath is not going to make sure that we get our chemo.
0:19.6	I'm the only one who can do that.
0:21.7	Hi, my name is Will Thinverns.
0:24.1	I'm 28 years old and I'm already dying.
0:28.9	So that's a great sign.
0:31.1	I guess you could say I'm a caregiver.
0:32.3	My son is 12 and he has special needs.
0:36.1	He was born with a brain abnormality, and I guess you could say that.
0:43.0	Hold on, buddy.
0:45.0	Oh, my goodness.
0:47.6	I've been his, okay, apologies for the abnormality eruption.
0:50.9	That was, I have three kids, and of course they all need me at this moment.
0:55.4	Anyways, so I'm Nora McNerney, and this is terrible.
1:02.0	Thanks for asking.
1:04.1	For the last few episodes, we've been focusing our conversations about care.
1:08.4	We've talked about end of life care.
1:10.2	We've talked about the work it takes to keep the home going, the care work that makes
1:14.7	the rest of our work possible.
1:17.8	We've covered all these different angles.
1:19.9	There's still so much more to say.
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