I'm new here, but not to caregiving | CAN

I'm new here, but not to caregiving.

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Shannonh
I'm new here, but not to caregiving.

Hi, I am 38, care for my fiance who has stage 4 liver cancer. I started to become a caregiver at 13, when my younger brother was hit by a car & had a broken leg. When I was 16, I was helping to take care of my mom and my younger brothers & sister whiley mom was on bed rest for her pregnancy with my sister & brother (she was carrying twins). When the twins were born, my mom landed back in the hospital with a serious breast infection. So I took care of the twins while she had to take care of herself. Later we found out my sister has Down's Syndrome, so I would help to care for her as much as I could. A few years later, we found out the twin brother has type 1 diabetes, which my sister has now acquired as well. I have helped to be the caregiver in all of these cases.