Your Loved One Is Coming Home: Ways to Help Prepare Yourself to Take Care of a Loved One During Their Last Days

By Joan Lehrke

Suddenly you are taking care of a loved one during their last days. Maybe a parent that always took care of you, perhaps another family member, or even a close friend. There is information given to you about what they will go through... but what will you face? What do you need to know? This book attempts to

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Oct 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781959450023

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Contents

Dedication

What Items Should We Take With Us From The Hospital?

Before Leaving the Hospital

Likes and Dislikes May Change

About the Author

Dedication

This booklet is dedicated to the loved ones I’ve had in my life. As I get older, it seems as though the moments spent with them are more and more special. Even though there are only a few people listed in this book, there are many others I have been fortunate enough to have had in my life that are gone now. Taking care of Mae and Tom were an opportunity for me to try and make up for not having been old enough, mature enough, or close enough in proximity to help with the others I have loved that are no longer with us.

It is my hope that if you are in the position of taking care of a loved one during their last days that you will consider it an honor and be able to do what it necessary out of love and respect. For remember…we all will have our own last days.

Your loved one is coming home. Emotions are running high. Perhaps there is a rehabilitation period to go through before he/she is able to get back to normal activity. Possibly there has been a decline and his/her health that causes a change in how normal will now be. Or, maybe your loved one has come home to spend the last part of their life and you are fortunate enough to be able to have them with you until the end. Whatever your circumstances, there are going to be some things you will encounter that life may never have thrown your way before. This pamphlet is an attempt to help you through some of these changes.

Before going further I’d like to introduce myself and let you know why writing this pamphlet is so important to me. I am Joan Lehrke, an ordinary person who, until recently, had no real experience with taking care of a dying family member. Yes, I took care of my children all through the ear infections, stitches, and various illnesses, but not until recently