How a Mother's Caregiving Journey Inspired Her to Help Others
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is privileged to welcome the founder and president of Zaggo, Inc. Roberta Carson to the show for an in-depth interview about her journey caring for her son Zachary and how this lead to the creation of Zaggo, Inc.
Zaggo is a national nonprofit organization founded by Roberta Carson in 2010. Zaggo is dedicated to providing patients and their family caregivers with the information and tools they need to become empowered, engaged, effective members of their medical teams for the best possible care.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:06.0 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello. local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.6 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here |
| 0:36.6 | at all home care |
| 0:37.5 | matters something that will hopefully matter to you today we have a very special guest we have |
| 0:42.9 | the president of zago.org miss Roberta carson who's here to share her story of her son |
| 0:48.8 | Zachary and what she went through learning how to navigate the health care system while caring |
| 0:54.0 | for him and what it |
| 0:55.7 | led to by the creation of Zago. Welcome, Roberta. Thank you. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me, Lance. |
| 1:02.4 | You're welcome. Thank you for being here. So let's start off with, I know you were sharing with us a little bit |
| 1:08.2 | about your son. Why don't you tell us about your son, Zach, |
| 1:11.1 | and kind of what led you to Zago and the work you're doing today? Okay, that's a big category. |
| 1:19.4 | So my son, Zachary, was a healthy, active 17-year-old until he developed these symptoms that at first we thought was a cold or maybe |
| 1:29.5 | allergies. And we brought him to the pediatrician. It was June in 2005, you know, green. |
| 1:37.7 | Oh my God, here I go. I'm going to back up on that. So we brought him to the pediatrician and we thought it was allergies. |
| 1:46.7 | The pediatrician agreed, gave him some medication and asked us to come back in a week. And in that |
| 1:52.1 | one week, he deteriorated significantly to the point where he couldn't lift his head. So we knew something |
| 1:58.6 | was wrong. And the doctor ordered an MRI, which we had the next day. |
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