8. The ones in the middle – the sandwich generation
There's a name for the people trying to hold up ageing parents, children, work and life all at once. What I learned about the cost of leaving yourself last, including from my own heart.
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There's a name for the people trying to hold up ageing parents, children, work and life all at once. What I learned about the cost of leaving yourself last, including from my own heart.
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Care doesn't end at discharge, but the system often acts like it does. What actually happens when a parent comes home too soon, and what nobody warns you about the medications that follow.
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After everything with my dad, I thought I understood how broken the system was. Then my mum fell, alone, and I saw the same gaps from a completely different angle, ageing alone, emergency tech that fails when it matters, and a hospital bed that had nothing to do with how badly she was hurt.
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I took my questions to lawyers, not for money, but to understand how something could feel so wrong and still sit inside the rules. Here's what I learned about how medical negligence actually works.
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After my dad died, I couldn't just accept it and move on. This is what it actually took to get answers, and what I'd want anyone in that position to know before they start.
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My dad went into hospital for observation after a fall. He never came home. This isn't about blaming the nurses who cared for him, it's about the systems and structures around them that failed when it mattered most.
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A couple of years ago, my life looked completely different. Then my dad had a fall, and everything changed, with no map for what came next.
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Looking after the people we love was never supposed to feel like this. This is why I started talking about it, and why it grew into so much more than a podcast.
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When my dad died and my mum's health began to decline, I realised how much I didn't know – and how little of it was written down anywhere. This is what I wish someone had told me sooner.
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