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When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs can take a back seat. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic.

[] Finding spiritual support
[] Maintaining balanced relationships
[] Deciding when living at home is no longer possible
[] Working out the finances
[] Understanding the impact on the whole family
[] Dealing with the personal losses

Whether you are caring for an elderly parent or other adult relative, you will be encouraged by the stories the author tells from her own life and from the lives of others. And you will be helped by the concrete ideas to carry you through.

"Kay Strom is a caregiver who has invested countless hours in helping her disabled husband. She knows what its like to plod through the routines, and she has opened up her heart and shared her poignant and powerful account of how she 'found the smile of God' through it all. Kay has experienced a lifetime of lessons and has catalogued invaluable insights to pass on to other caregivers." Joni Eareckson Tada, from the foreword

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Kay Marshall Strom is a professional writer living in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband, Dan Kline. The author of over twenty books, she is a popular speaker at writer's conferences.

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  • Paperback: 153 pages
  • Publisher: IVP Books (July 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0830822305
  • ISBN-13: 978-0830822300
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #541,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A compassionate journey of sharing, January 3, 2002
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This review is from: A Caregiver's Survival Guide: How to Stay Healthy When Your Loved One Is Sick (Paperback)
Almost 20 years ago, I lost my first wife to colon cancer. I wish I'd known then what I've learned from Kay Marshall Strom's excellent "Caregiver's Survival" book. Like many people suddenly caught up in the role of caregiver, I was unprepared mentally, physically, and emotionally for the role. I did my best then, but it was far short of what I could have done for her, for the children, and for myself--had I only known. My hope now is that this book will find its way to where it's needed: to those facing the prospect of providing the primary care for a loved one in failing health, so that this extremely painful journey can be made more tolerable by Ms. Strom's tender, Christian insights and advice. She connects to the reader by laying bare her own doubts and hardships in more than 7 years of caring for her terminally ill husband. Her book is filled with the dignity, respect, and hope that, through God's inspiration, can be developed in even the most hopeless of cases.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Lifesaver, May 28, 2001
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I am currently suffering from liver cancer. Although I am doing pretty well so far, I bought Strom's book for my husband who will end up being my caregiver. I even wrote suggestions in the margins for him (people to call on for respite for help, etc.) I hate to think of what is ahead for me, but it is a bit easier knowing my husband has a guide that I have been able to personalize. Bless you, Kay Marshall Strom. I wish I could give your book 10 stars!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical Guide for Any Caregiver, July 31, 2006
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When a family health crisis hits, the focus shifts to that particular person. Daily trips to the hospital or detailed medical care becomes the priority. Kay Marshall Strom has written A CAREGIVER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE, HOW TO STAY HEALTH WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS SICK (InterVarsity Press).

Kay knows first hand the struggles of such a situation. Over a period of ten years, her husband, Larry, went from a business manager at a major corporation to severe dementia and the progressive loss of the use of his arms and legs. For the last four years of his life, he was in a nursing home because he was too dangerous for Kay to care for at home.

In a crisis, the caregiver is rarely addressed and this book meets a special need. As Kay says, "Struggling blindly wears out the human spirit. Knowing what to expect, and when and where to go for help, makes the journey bearable. Accepting God as the first and primary "resource" brings blessing out of disaster."

This book helps caregivers cope with the emotional roller coaster, fitting into their new role, discovering the balance between personal care and care for the loved one, handling life with limited resources and letting go. The appendices for the book include a nursing home checklist and additional resources. As Joni Eareckson Tada writes in the foreword for the book, "Kay has experienced a lifetime of lessons and has catalogued invaluable insights to pass along to other caregivers."

The book is a careful mixture of personal-been-there experience, practical checklist type advice as well as a dependence on God to meet our needs.
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This book has really great encouragement as well as solid, practical help for the caregiver. I appreciate that the author addresses the kind of "under the surface" questions and... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Useful Reference Book
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