One of the complications of my mother being ill, and, of just my mother in general, is that she is a polite Southern Lady. This is all well and good, unless you are talking about topics such as, oh, say…”Can you breathe?”
It took me quite a while into her illness to figure out that she […]
Though I can’t stop saying, “The Trouble With Tribbles“, I ran across a site called “Troubled With“. At first, I thought it was kind of a negative name, but, I realized it provides help for people who are truly “troubled” about a matter. The site has a collection of articles, and, resources about a […]
I have an interesting (but, not insurmountable) situation coming up that is a good example of a sandwich generation dilemma.
My dad has to have minor surgery in a couple of weeks. However, with him, minor stuff isn’t always “minor” since he takes blood thinners. He has to arrive at the hospital at 5:30am, but, my […]
Just in case there are readers here who don’t know me already, I thought I’d update you on my mother.
If you are just joining in, my membership card to the sandwich generation was issued on June 18, 2003 when my mother (68, at the time) was diagnosed with Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer after […]
Here is an article that feels a little more balanced when describing the dilemmas experienced by those of us in the sandwich generation.
One of the greatest challenges for a son or daughter caring for a parent is realizing limitations. Trying to squeeze in family, caregiving, social outings, housekeeping and, sometimes, work forces people to the […]
Jenn has a touching post today over at Mommybloggers about how her own mother’s illness and death, and her response to it, has affected her children. Though I’m pretty sure I will be cited by the grammar police for ambiguous use of pronouns in the previous sentence, go over and read it. I’ll be here […]
I ran across this article about the work pressures faced by women of the sandwich generation who have jobs outside the home. Maybe I’m reading into it, but, even though it says work is putting this pressure on women, it seems like there’s an undertone (starting with the title) in the article that implies women […]
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It seems like the moment I turned 40, I turned into a middle-aged cliche. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer right before then, and, I realized I had become the sterotypical person who is tired, overworked, frazzled at home, worried about everything. It seems like one minute I was happily involved in raising my […]
Word Spy has a summary of the evolution of the term “sandwich generation”. Some of the “related terms” are kind of interesting. I wonder if I’m in my “middlescence“?
Tags: middlescence, terminology
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