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The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
This podcast is for every daughter, son, spouse, partner, friend, and caregiver who has ever sat in a doctor's office taking notes, answered a call from the emergency room, argued about a walker, searched for the missing phone, or cried in a parking lot before pulling themselves together and walking back inside.
It's for the people who suddenly find themselves managing medications, appointments, paperwork, insurance, doctors, family dynamics, and decisions they never expected to have to make…
Episodes
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
Mom’s Home! Welcome to 24/7 Caregiving
After three months in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities, Mom is finally home! But bringing an aging parent home after a serious accident and months of…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E022 - Mom’s Coming Home — The Calm Before the Caregiving Chaos
What happens when hospital rehab ends and your mom is discharged? In this episode of The Wicked Daughter, Caring for Your Aging Parents One Meltdown at a Time…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E021: Discharge Deadline: Cars & Furniture Wars
Caring for an aging parent is hard enough. Preparing a home for their return while racing against a surprise discharge deadline? Welcome to caregiver chaos…
The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a TimeE020: Mom's Moving In — The House Hunt from Hell
Finding a house is stressful enough. Finding one when your mom is recovering in rehab after a serious accident, her discharge date is looming, and you need a…
The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a TimeE019: Caring for an Aging Parent: 3 Steps, 1 Shower, and a Whole Lot of Questions
You're trying to get your aging parent home, keep track of medical appointments, figure out the next crisis, and somehow remember what you were doing five…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E018: No House, No Time: The Rehab Discharge Panic
E018 — No House, No Time: The Rehab Discharge Panic Caring for an aging parent is not exactly a relaxing hobby. There are doctor appointments, rehab, discharge…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E017: Mom Needed a Little Self-Care, So Did I: Caregiver Self-Care
Somewhere between hospital stays, rehab schedules, medical appointments, and trying to figure out what happens next, I realized something: Caregiving has a…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E016: The Rest of Life Doesn't Stop
Well... this week's episode is a day late. Which, considering what this episode is about, is actually pretty damn appropriate. Because caregiving has a funny…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E015: Transportation is a Thing
Getting an aging parent to a doctor’s appointment is easy… until it isn’t. In this episode of The Wicked Daughter, Mom is settling into rehab and starting to…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E014: What a Difference Rehab Makes: From Hospital Bed to Rehab
A month earlier, I was sitting beside my mom’s hospital bed, watching a machine breathe for her and wondering if she was going to make it. Now? She was getting…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E013: Apparently, I Was Supposed to Know That: Rehab Hunting & Medical Mishaps
Welcome to caregiving, where you are suddenly promoted to Director of Google, Phone Calls, and Making Decisions Nobody Trained You For. In this episode of The…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E012: Discharge? She's Not Even Out of Bed!
Mom was finally getting better. Her lungs were improving. Her heart was stable. Her broken leg was healing. So why were we suddenly talking about hospital…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E011: Progress Is a Four-Letter Word
I thought I finally understood what happened after a hospital stay: you went home, or you went to rehab. Then someone introduced me to an acute care hospital—a…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E010: Good News! There's a New Problem.
Mom survived the ICU. She was finally breathing on her own. The crisis was over. Or so I thought. Recovery turned out to be a whole new battle. One day we're…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E009: Why I Didn't Give the Hospital Her DNR
When my mom was admitted to the hospital after being hit by a car, I made a decision that would weigh heavily on me for weeks. I didn't give the hospital her…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E008: It's OK to Go Home: Caregiver's Guilt
Hospital Time teaches you patience. ICU Time teaches you endurance. The first full day after my mom was placed on a ventilator was an endless cycle of waiting…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E007: I Promised Her It Was Temporary
For the first time since my mom's accident, it finally feels like we're moving in the right direction. After days of hospital stays, setbacks, and learning…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E006: Okay Means Something Different in a Hospital
When the phone rings at 2:45 in the morning, you already know your night is over. Just when it seemed like Mom had survived the worst, a new complication…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E005: As Needed
New here? Welcome! This podcast follows my real caregiving story - managing my aging parent, one meltdown at a time. If you'd like to hear how it all began…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E002: How Caregiving Made Me The Wicked Daughter
One phone call changed everything. One minute I was just a daughter. The next, I was navigating hospitals, impossible decisions, and a role nobody ever…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E003: Hospital Time
The sheriff said Mom was alive. That was the good news. Everything after that...got complicated. In this episode, I take you inside the emergency room, where…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E004: It Shouldn't Be Much Longer
"The doctor will be with you shortly." "It shouldn't be much longer." If you've ever waited in a hospital, you know those words can mean absolutely anything…
- The Wicked Daughter - Caring For Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time
E001: Welcome to the Right Waiting Room
Nobody hands you a manual for becoming a caregiver. They just hand you a clipboard. No one prepares you for the waiting. The worrying. The impossible…