What Made Me A Great caregiver Was When I tapped In With My Stepdad And His Illness, I Might have Been At least 15yrs old, My Mother Was Normally Calling the hospital To Ask His blood Pressure When it Was To high, I'll Normal Have Suggestions That Worked Drink Lots Of Water, Take his Insolence Which My Stepdad Was Hard Headed I Would get Up As Early As Him When His days For Dialysis, I Would Usually Get Up With him To Make Sure he Was Ready Now Mind You I had No Clue In What I Was doing but i Was doing It Made Sure he Ate the right things, Helped him Walked When he Would have fluid in his Knees One Day he gotten real Sick And Had to have Surgery, On his Foot because We Noticed a black Spot Under His Foot Almost became Gain green, I took Care Of him feed him made bath Water Comb and grease His Scalp Go to the Store for him either Or push him in his Wheelchair, Mind You I had Other Siblings Who Wasn't As Considering yhan I Was My Mom Would Say baby You don't have to the Nurse Will be here And I Would Never mind Her And Just Doctor My daddy because I had Love for Him He Wasn't My biological But I made Sure he Was Tooken Care Of because I Wanted And Needed Him Around....Even to the Nurses At Metropolitan, Notice and Saw My Interest And Even Asked What I Wanted To be growing Up And I Said A Nurse So It Was Something I've Always been Into And So because There Was Always Some kind of Transition Problem I've Never gotten to do What I love Doing And thats Taking Care Of Elderly People.....
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