Blurt It Out: Recent Episodes
Erika Harvey
Dealing with being a caregiver for a family member, friend or loved one can be tough. Trying to meet the demands of home, work and care can take its toll and leave you depressed, isolated and feeling guilty. This is one story of a nurse, nursing instructor and former elder care facility administrator who thought she would have it all under control only to find out that , was so not the case. She discusses the words that can't be said due to judgement by others, the good and the bad of coping mechanisms, LGBTQ caregiver and care recipients unique problems and offers up tips and tricks on how to provide basic care all the way to more complex caregiving tasks.
Skin tears and first aid kits are an every day caregiving 101 event. In today’s podcast we will discuss how to tend to a skin tear and what you should keep in a first aid kit at home.
Show notes down below!
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Season 1, Episode 2 SKINTEAR FUN & FIRST AID KITS! Home First Aid Kits [00:00:00] [00:00:06] [00:00:06]Hey, this is Erica and welcome to blurt it out. Today we're going to talk about what you do for skin tears should do at your house. I know that before my mother died, she spent a lot of time in climbing ladders too. To clean the gutters and trim trees and everything that, and kept saying, mom, you're like 84, what are you doing? [00:00:30] But she was adamant that she was going to stay fit and healthy and a
remembering my mother who was the ultimate poster child of what a caregiver is and how they suffer silently