Monthly Archives: March 2011
Tribute to Carers
Carers are often overlooked
There’s no sympathy to spare,
When it’s lavished on the one who’s sick –
The person in their care.
So often the carer needs an ear
A shoulder on which to cry,
A minute or two just for themselves
As their life goes rushing by.
An hour to spend that’s just for them
For fripperies and for fun
When at someone else’s beck and call,
Their work is never done.
An outing to the cinema perhaps,
To laugh and feel carefree,
To offload the burden,
Weighed down with love,
So a bit of life they see.
They never moan, they don’t regret,
They don’t see it as a chore.
They don’t do it as a duty
Or to notch up a heavenly score.
They don’t get awarded medals
At the end there is no prize.
But then, you see, each carer
Is an angel in disguise.
author unknown
Cuts: “I DON’T want to go back to the olden days – they were really bad.”
CUTS: Vulnerable adults fear cutbacks to care funding
MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD: An action group has been set up by adults with learning difficulties to fight the proposed government cuts to the Supporting People Programme. Picture: Abby Ruston
Those are the words of Gary Stark, 33, of Grimsby, who suffers with learning difficulties.
He is part of an action group of adults with similar problems, who fear cuts to their funding could mean a return to the now redundant long-stay hospitals.
Those dreadful nights on being a Carer
Accidents during the night are really hard to bear. There you were, lost to the world in your balanced linen, and the next moment you’re up to your arms in it. It’s at moments like these that the worst side of your nature comes to the fore. Carers have been known to swear at their piglets in the middle of the night, even though it never does any good, never did, and never will.
