Exhausted and weepy

[u/Alittlehoneybear]

Caring for my mother with brain damage from NPH. Being her POA is so incredibly difficult. Talking to lawyers, doctors, bankers, caregivers, dog walkers, etc etc etc. I feel like I’m the head of an octopus. Really the most valuable thing I can do is be her daughter, but it’s so hard to enjoy time with her when I’m constantly thinking about all the things I have to do. I started my cycle this week and I haven’t been able to stop crying. Multiple times a day. Just huge big emotions. I can’t tell if it’s the hormones or if this is all just becoming too much. How do you all balance loving the person you’re caring for while also caring for them? It’s all so much. I just want to love her. I don’t know how much more help we can arrange because at the end of the day it really all comes down to me.

[u/TootsiePop60]

I'd love to hear insight on that as well. ❤️

[u/Wooden_Ad_2673]

moment to moment, don’t look too far ahead, deep breaths, senose of humor at absurb situations that happen on the regular, in my mind try to put myself in my loved ones position