VOICE OF A CARE-RECIPIENT

Why is this happening to me?

Do you remember who I was before?

Where did yesterday go when life was so full and rich with meaning?

Why is my world so small now?

Why am I so scared of what the future holds?

With losing my freedom and choices, am I losing me?

And yet I am grateful to have people who care and still love me.

I am comforted to know that my life has been filled with purpose.

My life and my love live on through you.

I am satisfied with the choices we have made together.

Participants of a “Writing for Recovery” writing group in Ashland, Ohio

Susan Becker, Deborah Brookshire, Derrick Coffman, Cindy Swanger, Rebecca Thompson, and Diana Spore.

As a writing exercise, Writing Group Participants worked collaboratively on poems that focused on caregiving.  They were asked to think and write from two different perspectives: Caregiver and Care-Recipient.

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