Sandwiched between my kids and my parents
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, March 26th, 2017 at 07:50 PM (1417 Views)
At our SCY championships I had a great time to speak with Rick Battistini, our coach du jour, and he had a lot of wisdom about taking care of one's parents.
I had been looking for any commiseratory blog entries but didn't see any.
My father had cancer and was taking a lot of extra care last year and he unexpectedly died of a massive heart attack on December 30th 2016.
My mother was not in great health at the time and took it understandably very poorly and had a sharp degradation in her own health.
I ended up 9-1-1ing her to the hospital for a 1 1/2 week stay and now she is rehabbing at home.
I have had to stop everything but coaching Masters 3x per week and am battling back to swimming time for myself for my own gratification and stress release and health.
I don't know how much longer my mom has and I have limited help form limited family nearby.
Since I've been coaching and teaching swimming, I have needed the support of my parents and this is really tough.
Last weekend at SCYs I was so tired I was not having fun until I could nap for 1 1/4 hours between events then had to scratch the last 2 because I had to get back to Mom and relieve my son from mom sitting!
I am figuring it out bit by bit!