Do YOU have what it takes?

It takes a very special person to be a home care provider. Not just anyone can fill the position. Not many persons understand this, it is a very difficult job. I hope to find more people like me, who can understand the meaning of being a home care provider. Not just a provider to do a job that no one else wants to do.

Being a home care provider is a very difficult job. Many people will not agree. They think that you can go to a persons home and take care of the person, spend some time with them and you go home and that is it, job done, easy pay. Only there is more to it than that.

People do not realize that you have to have a heart and desire to be a home care provider. It takes someone who has the patience to care for another person. This person has to have a lot of love to give, and be able to give affection when needed.
There are not many people in the world who would take their time in feeding a person who has Parkinson's' Disease. Where you have to wait for them to be able to swallow the food in their mouth, before you give them another spoonful or they might choke.

A person, who can go into some one's home and take them a bath or take them to the toilet and wait patiently until they are done without rushing them and then wipe their bottoms and not be disgusted or "grossed out".

I can tell you of times when I would cry with my patients, because they felt so alone and embarrassed. They had no one from their own family to come and do the job I was doing, for them. Or when I would go home thinking that one of my patients were home alone after I left and no one would be there until morning.

It really upsets me to think that there are people out there that really need help and there are not enough people to care or help someone in need.
I do volunteer work, I go and stay with this lady who has had a stroke. She has her family, but they can't attend to her and they don't want to put her in a nursing home. I take care of her and stay with her for free, only because I can not stand to see her by herself.

What if something should happen to her while she is alone, how can she help herself. She can't talk, the stroke affected her speech, she can't walk without a walker. She can not cook for herself and she can not get to the bathroom on her own. It's people like this that really need someone to be there for them.

It takes a very special person to be a home care provider. Not just anyone can fill the position. It is a very difficult job. Not just a provider to do a job that no one else wants to do. Do YOU have what it takes?