DON’T LOSE HEART BROCHURES – HELP US SPREAD THE WORD
Jean’s NP, Beth, thought of these – she said the nurses and doctors are always handing people brochures with information about their medical conditions, but there was nothing they could give to the caregiver sitting there beside their loved one or friend. She wanted something that did what our website does: alert caregivers to the health risks and let them know that someone cares about them too.
If you’d like to help us reach out to the caregivers in your area, click on CONTACT US in the top bar and under “Type of Contact”, select “Order BROCHURES” and fill in the info.
We’ll write back and ask you to write your address on a peel-to-stick mailing label, put it in an envelope and mail it to us at one of our addresses.
Then we’ll send you 10 brochures that you can give to caregivers you know, or take to your local cancer center, hospital, hospice, home care, adult day care, etc. Ask for the manager, then give them the brochure, and tell them that we’re a group of caregivers offering online support to other caregivers. Let them know that they can CONTACT US here at www.dontloseheart.org and we’ll send them a box of 50 brochures to their business address, free of charge.
Thank you for helping us to reach caregivers who may need support.
Hi (again) Lynnsey;
I posted a reponse to your first post and then read this. As a fellow therapist, I hope you are taking extra time to focus on yourself. I know our profession is extremely difficult, even under the best of circumstances, let alone facing “work” after losing a partner. It is good to have you on the site. Take care!
Lynn
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Lynnsey,
I am sorry to read about the loss of your partner, Tracy. It is still so new and heartbreaking, just know we are here for you at DLH, if and when you feel comfortable in commenting more. Care-giving at times is exhausting and when we care for a loved one with a terminal illness, it can be completely overwhelming. But you held it together, you were there for her and now you must be good to yourself. When you wrote “I couldn’t allow myself to see the toll her illness was taking on me while she was alive, there was just too much to do and I wanted to be with her every minute……Now I know”
It spoke to me personally as a caregiver, Thank you, be kind to yourself.
~Char
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I recently lost my partner to brain cancer. Somehow I found your site, thank you. We both loved Dan’s music, esp. “the Reach” (I live in Sedgwick).
I work as a therapist in Ellsworth. Many of my clients have chronic major illness as well as MH issues, and many are caregivers. I would like some of you brochures. I could pick some up or meet you somewhere to get some.
Tracy was 52, we were partners 27 years. She died 8 months ago. I can’t write her story yet, it is still ongoing anyway. We are not separate, just in different places.
I am still exhausted. I couldn’t allow myself to see the toll her ilness was taking on me while she was alive, there was just too much to do and I wanted to be with her every minute……Now I know…. Again, thanks. Lynnsey
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