The sandwich years : how to survive when the people in your life need you most

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Label

The sandwich years : how to survive when the people in your life need you most

Title remainder

how to survive when the people in your life need you most

Statement of responsibility

Alana Kirk

Creator

• Kirk, Alana

Subject

• Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients | Care
• Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients | Family relationships
• Kirk, Alana -- Family
• Mothers and daughters -- Ireland
• Health and Wellbeing

Language

eng

Summary

In life women can have many labels: daughter, single girl, wife, career woman, mother. I had worn them all and, while life was hectic, I was the one in control. Then four days after the birth of my third daughter, my mum had a massive stroke and, just like that, everything changed. Over the time to come - what I call 'the Sandwich Years' - I found myself both grieving for and caring for my beloved mum, supporting my dad, raising my three young daughters, while trying to get my career back on track. The cracks began to show. I discovered that, sometimes, having it all, means doing it all and that, amid the maelstrom of need, I had lost the label I had started out with: me. 'Daughter, Mother, Me' is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between a mother and a daughter and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself

Member of

• Daughter, mother, me

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 362.1'9681'0092
• 362.196810092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography