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Be the Noddle by Lois Kelly7/1/2023 “It was such a joyful 15 minutes,” she said. Kelly’s mother only had enough energy for 15 minutes of this frivolity. “My sister and I helped her out on the deck, and it was a beautiful May morning, and we had martinis.” “One day, really towards the end of my mother’s life – for the most part she just slept – she got up and said, ‘I feel great! Let’s have a martini on the deck!’” Kelly recalled with a laugh and noting it was 9:30 a.m. Some of the tips in Kelly’s book are humorous, others are sad, and many are practical – just like the reality of being there for someone facing the end. One of six siblings, Kelly was the only one with a schedule flexible enough to allow her to move in with her mother to provide her elderly home care. Kelly became her mother’s primary caregiver in the final months of her mother’s life as she succumbed to cancer. “It’s OK to feel like, ‘I wish this person would just hurry up and die,’” said Lois Kelly, author of Be The Noodle: Fifty Ways to Be a Compassionate, Courageous, Crazy-Good Caregiver. Caregivers tasked with spending the final days, weeks, or months with a loved one with a terminal illness cope with many conflicting emotions.
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