Connie T.

About Connie

Hi, my name is Connie and I became a caregiver because I enjoy taking care of others. If someone is in my care and they are able to be comfortable and content in their own home, then I've accomplished my goal. I had taken care of a 91 yr old gentleman who was a lovely, funny, sharp witted and very family oriented personality. We had a very good relationship for the 7 yrs. that he was in my care. I had to do just about everything. That included daily wakening, helping him get bathed, hair combed, sometimes needed help dressing . I prepared all his meals, cleaned up the kitchen, bedroom, his bathroom, den, and living room. It was a small house, so not a lot to clean. I made him his favorite meals, he loved to eat and loved sweets too. In the winter, I baked him his favorite cookies,,, that made him very happy! He enjoyed when I arranged rides for him to see his family on the weekends and special days too .I arranged all doctor appts too. He spoke of his wife quite often. As his dementia got worse he would talk to her in his sleep. I believed she was always with him. He had a pacemaker and aortic valve that was only working 30%. As he got weaker, he needed help walking around and doing steps in and out of the house. I helped him do some PT that the doctors wanted for him. He had severe aortic stenosis. He knew his time was coming to an end on this earth. This was a man with a very big heart that was broken because he missed his wife so immensely that passed away the week before I came to him. He is in heaven now with her where he wanted to be all the years he survived living without her. His family told me that he wouldn't have survived living in his home without my care and companionship for anymore than a year or two. I believe that was very true. He wrote poems to her to express his love, grief, and yearning for them to be together. I believed his wife called for him to come home to her where they would both be happy and reunited again.

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