E017: Mom Needed a Little Self-Care, So Did I: Caregiver Self-Care

The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time · Sep 29, 2026 · 15m · transcript

Somewhere between hospital stays, rehab schedules, medical appointments, and trying to figure out what happens next, I realized something:

Caregiving has a funny way of making your own life disappear.

Mom had been through weeks of hospitals and rehab, and somewhere along the way, we'd lost a lot of the things that made her feel like herself.

Then rehab reminded me that they had a hair and nail salon.

A haircut.

A little pampering.

Something completely ordinary.

And watching Mom come out of that appointment looking and feeling more like Mom instead of Patient in Room Whatever got me thinking…