j told me yesterday that he doesn't like the word "caregiver."
truth be told, i don't like it much either. it makes me sound like some old hag hauling water and changing the bed pans. it makes me sound a whole lot nicer than i actually am. it's just one of those things with cancer that really made my skin crawl the first time i heard it and now is part of my every day vocabulary.
j does need "care" to be given, but not in the way the word "caregiver" implies.
i think someone should invent a new, less icky name, like "temporary super human, who, while temporarily 'super', is also still completely fallible and should not be held to the standards of perfection implied in the word 'super'". yes, very catchy.
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