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My mother worked as a nurse from as early as I can remember until her retirement during the 1970's. I was drawn to the medical field but never became a nurse. I worked in various jobs from surgery, radiology, pharmacy and finally emergency room admissions. In January 1998 my brother-in-law in Lubbock, TX passed away leaving my sister without a primary care giver. We moved her to our home in Harlingen, TX. She was 100% bed ridden after twenty years of progressive Muscular Sclerosis. I had excellent home care workers for her during the hours that I worked outside of the home. Her nursing care was provided by a company that our physician recommended. Many were good but two were outstanding. They taught me about skin care, catheter care, diet, medication and even forms of exercise that my sister could do with one arm. Her Social Worker through the State of Texas worked closely with me to get the equipment we needed to transfer her from the bed to a special wheel chair or her shower chair. She got us approved to have our bathroom renovated to a handicap shower. As I learned, I then instructed the home care givers to make sure that my sister had the best possible care.
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What makes makes me a great caregiver is that I am very patient loving caring and responsible. why I became a caregiver is as I was younger I took care of my grandmother and enjoyed spending time with her as she was elderly needed a lot of care and I took my time to take care of her and I enjoyed spending time with her. what I like about being a caregiver is spending time with people that really need the help and will appreciate the time and effort you have done to help their lives as they are not able to do it on their own. A Personal Achievement I am proud of is I helped a gentleman and his name is mr. Scoggins as he needed a lot of help when he came into the facility he was very weak and was not able to move on his own as he got stronger I help them with their being so he was able to move in the wheelchair tell them to move was able to do a lot of arm lifting leg lifting then from there we did the rails where he was able to do sitting sitting up with help with the rails and then then slowly he went to move into walking across the rails I think that was one of the biggest achievements on myself and him working hard together to get a little stronger as the days went on.
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