25/08/2023
I used to be amazed when my friends would hand their toddler to me to carry... What was so easy for them was really hard for me! And then I realized that they started training when this child weighed only 7 or 8 pounds, so carrying a 30-pound toddler was no problem. I hadn't started training, so it felt much harder for me. Something similar happens with caring for a family member who's living with dementia. The struggles of the early stages of dementia teach us how to manage as our loved one enters the later stages. It doesn't mean it'll be easy at any point, but we learn things we need to know down the line.
