[Magdalen] Near the end of my rope

[Allan Carr]

As of tonight (indeed.com), there are 352 caregiver jobs open here in
Thousand Oaks, CA,  a town of about 130,000. The Hispanic or Latino
population is only 17% and the pay is low. So there is some incentive to
leave a highly stressful situation for one less stressful, or paying
slightly more, or having better (sometimes longer) hours, or avoiding
stressful commutes, or attending community college for a better job, or
whatever.
At the moment, I think our caregiver is happy, but a good bit of my stress
in the last couple of years has been worrying about the length of stay of
our caregivers for reasons cited above, and we raily get any notice.


On Sunday, March 8, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thoughts and prayers here Jim. It is possible that your current health
> care group is not hiring capable aids. Marcy's behavior though very
> difficult and especially hard on you is to be expected of anyone who still
> has their mental faculties in a situation like this as difficult as that
> is. Any hospice aid should be prepared for this and have skills to keep
> themselves from taking it personally.
> I hope your time away is one of respite and renewal of energy.
> Peace Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 8, 2015, at 8:09 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> Sorry to burden you all with this.  Yesterday evening Marcy bullied the
> evening aide, and today she quit.  I don't blame her (the aide that is), so
> tonight I'm caring for Marcy on my own.  That is doable - I've done it
> before.  But it feels like she's forgotten that she cares for me and is
> happy to have aides leave.  I'm about to change agencies, and maybe that
> will make a difference.
>
> I'm off to Hawaii for 12 days in a week.  Marcy will be at Hospice Atlanta
> Center during that time.  But right now I need stamina and strength.  I'm
> crying as I write this.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net <javascript:;>
>
>

-- 
Allan Carr