Showing results for kno knew knowтащ

Karen

Karen has the mindset that you do what you can to help family, so she began to do the shopping and other small tasks for her mother in 2010. In addition, Karen has a background in finance, so she helped her mother, aunt, and uncle with their finances. By 2016, Mimi...
Jeannette

Jeannette

 Jeannette’s husband returned from Iraq with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, signs and symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and advanced bone and disc degeneration. His symptoms got worse over time, but Jeannette knew things were...
Selena

Selena

Selena is a caregiver to her mother, who was recently diagnosed with stage 3A colon cancer. Growing up in an African American and Jamaican English household, Selena never saw the care she provided as “caregiving”—it was simply expected of her as the eldest daughter....
Sarah

Sarah

Sarah’s daughter, Jessi, was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex disorder at five months old. Her condition causes epilepsy, autism, kidney disease, developmental disabilities, development of tumors and cysts on all of Jessi’s organs, and a lung condition. Sarah...
Michael

Michael

Being Christina’s care partner has been one of the most rewarding, challenging, and life-changing experiences of my life. It has tested me emotionally, stretched me intellectually, and reshaped who I am. Christina has C3G, a rare kidney disease. Before caregiving, I...
Jesus

Jesus

Jesus is a care partner for his younger sister, who, after visits to several doctors was diagnosed with kidney disease. She was told that she would need a kidney transplant. Jesus’ mom is older and was already dealing with some health complications of her own. That...
Cody

Cody

Cody is a caregiver for his young daughter, who was born eight weeks early with biliary atresia, a rare liver disease. Doctors told Cody and his family that she would eventually need a liver transplant, and in the meantime performed a surgery that was able to delay...
Albert

Albert

Albert cares for his partner, who has received a kidney transplant and was undergoing dialysis when he and Albert started dating. Albert knew going into the relationship that he would be a part of his partner’s care team one day. Albert’s partner was able to remain...
Paurvi

Paurvi

Paurvi was a caregiver for both her mother and her father. While her father had Alzheimer’s, her mom had many conditions, including lung disease that turned into lung cancer, which originated from cervical cancer. Paurvi’s parents immigrated from India, and being...
Autumn

Autumn

 Autumn was 32 when her mother was diagnosed with a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As the only child of a single mother, Autumn knew she would be her mother’s caregiver one day, but neither she nor her mother expected that day to be when her mother was only...
Sarah

Sarah

Sarah spent several years caring for her brother who suffered from cognitive decline, endured physical challenges, and was diagnosed with COPD. He used alcohol to cope with his conditions, which complicated the care Sarah provided. After her brother passed, Sarah...