Calling on the caregivers

You are in it now. This is the part of the forum that was made for caregivers. As you find issues that apply just to you as caregivers this is the place to post. I am hoping that the new caregivers on the site will enliven it and supply each other with support and friendship as they go along.

Survivors and we call ourselves survivors from the day we are diagnosed are here out of need. If you had given us a choice we would have picked a different way to use the world wide web. The caregivers are here out of love and by choice. The chose to care about us and be a partner with us in this journey. Caring for someone with a serious diagnosis often leaves someone doing the heavy lifting emotionally and physically at time. You all are our heroes and this section of the forum is supplied for you to talk about what that is like and how you are or are not handling it.

All of the sections of the forum are there for a purpose and we do hope from section to section but a forum is a lot like a library. Topic to topic, like to like, so that others that come after us or lurk benefit from our sharing our experiences. This Caregiver section was very vibrant and I am hoping with the new caregivers we see coming in that it will be again. I sure that with more activity that the older caregivers will pipe in.

We find that from time to time different groups are more active on the forum. Our Caregiver section was very active and then over time they graduated on to other things. For us it is like a parent watching their kids go on we are happy for them but we miss them. The down side is it has left a void for the others that come after. What was once a group that offered a lot of support and understanding to each other is no longer there. In the last weeks I am seeing a new group of Caregivers on the site and I am inviting them and asking them to start posting here and supporting each other.