Have I lost my job?

I pulled myself out of the house to go to work, Sunday, to fill in a 7-7 shift at my sweet little 99 year old charge. It was a normal night of up and downs and was very tired when no one showed up at 7:am.n I contacted my agency to inform them and then the phone started ringing. It was one of the daughters, wondering why I was working, they had canceled the care for last night or so they thought. Then I got the call to leave the house and go into the office. The family has decided they wanted to try and take care of their mother them selves because it cost too much money for me. They wanted a older person to be steady and a companion for their mother but they didn't want to have to pay for it ,I guess. Well the agency is going to find work for me but I don't know who or when.
I thought I finally found a great job and now I'm back to step one. If it had been caused by illness or death I guess I could understand, maybe if this was a new process for the family I might of understood that also, but at this time of year and what they have asked for to think that maybe they would try again to care for their mother, themselves. I just don't know. Being a care giver is not always a secure position, but it is not easy either. Well I guess I will take this time to straighted up my own home and maybe decorate the house.( it hasn't been done in years)

It's worth the caring

Happy Thanksgiving. It has been a day, a day sleeping and staying home. Richard cooked our dinner, and that is something to be very thankful for. I have to go to work in 20 minutes, and I'm thankful for my job that is working out okay. It hasn't snowed, yet, and I am very, very thankful for that since I need snow tires put on. Richard's sister is out of I.C.U and that is something to be thankful for. Do you get the jest of this entry? I am thankful for all the blessing that my Father in Heaven has blessed me with, a thankful, grateful entry you could say. Caring for others make you realize how good you have it, at times. I love reading my family's blogs. I love keeping in touch with the family that is so far away. I went to a movie last week, A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carry. It was good but then I love the story. It needs to be a must this year, or at least a try. It's that time of year that we are reminded of out family and all the loved ones in our life. Though I am here in New York I still can be close to the family in Utah if I just imagine enough. ( maybe this year I'll get that Christmas Album cut) Let's all try to keep the conversation going okay? It's worth the caring.

still caring, just different

A new post, something to say, or just some communication sent out into the universe. Well I had to quit the nursing home, I wasn't forced or anything like that, I just couldn't take it anymore. ( and I got another job offer that was just to good to be true) Oh I still work over night, but this time I am working for only one person. A woman who is 99 and just needs a little help at night so she doesn't fall. She is continent but thinks she has to go to the bathroom every 15 min. Her daughters are going to be the problem. Yeah she has six daughters all nurses and all have their own ideas on how to "raise" their mother. One wants no television, the other wants her mother forced to sit ,with feet elevated, and wait at least an hour before going, Then there is the younger daughter, who live with her mother right now and is still working in an nursing home, who says to do any thing I want. This is going to be an interesting job. Oh as far as care giving is going, my husband had an accident at work and broke 2 fingers and 12 stitches, and now he thinks he has gout in it also. Got to take care of him. I think that is what he has wanted for a while. I'm going to miss all the people that have touched my life in this short time, I hope I have touched theirs for some good. Life just keeps on going and going and going........ that's the life of a caregiver