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The Village: Being a Caregiver Can Mean Stress, Burnout and Illness |
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
JMS Kaplan Journal by Megan Burks
February 21, 2008
Gretchen Strauss’s father “didn’t draw one pleasant breath” in the end. He refused care and grew more aggressive as his dementia and bone cancer reached their final stages, even being restrained so he wouldn’t rip out an intravenous tube that reached from a vein in his arm to a chamber in his heart.
When he fell unconscious and later died of bone cancer last December, Strauss said she felt more relief than sorrow.
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