The Other Patient

I watched both of my parents take their last breaths just hours apart in my own house. It was the hardest thing I've ever done — until I retired early to become a full-time caregiver for my wife.

This is the caregiver's side of the journey. If you're a family caregiver, you know that this life is a marathon with no finish line — and most of what's out there is Hallmark sympathy and toxic positivity that doesn't hold up past breakfast.

The Other Patient is the channel that tells the truth. Spousal caregiving, caregiver burnout, anticipatory grief, resentment, isolation — the things nobody warns you about when you become the other patient in the room.

No sugarcoating. Just what it actually feels like, and how to keep going when the well is empty.

If you're in this too, you already know. Subscribe and we'll carry this together.