Toshia G.

I'm a great caregiver cause I enjoy what I do so it doesn't seem like work. Helping someone in need and making them laugh are smile is a good thing. Making what seems like a hard task a better one example putting on ones shoe when they are unable to do for themselves. I became a caregiver cause when my grandmother was sick and dying I help with her care alone with my mom and Aunts and I knew that that's what I wanted to do. Keeping my grandmother home was the best thing we could ever had done. My last client was a wonderful person, we became friends and not only did she need me I also needed her I'm so proud to say I was with her until the end.

Hi my name is Erin. Let me start by telling you why I got into this line of work to begin with. My dad is 60 yrs old now but in 2013 he was diagnosed with leukemia. He went through several rounds of chemo and then his bone marrow transplant. After a bone marrow transplant they give you medicine to keep you from rejecting the transplant. He was so sick and not getting any better. He began having siezures which lead the doctors to do more tests to find out why and when they did they found that he was allergic to the medicine and it had caused him to have several strokes. From there he went on to an acute care facility and to rehab but he was never the same. It left him paralyzed. While he was in and out if these facilities we saw so many things that were just wrong. Patients calling for nurses and the nurses never went to help. After that we took him home and mother and I learned to care for my father ourselves. After all that I decided I was going to go into home healthcare to care for people so that they didn't have to go to a nursing home because people deserve to be loved and cared for just like my father. This personal experience is what makes me a great caregiver.