I am an author of my first book, "Wise Advice for Caregivers." I am now the proud author of my new book, "Guidance for the Care Giver." After working for almost 50 years, I am now a retired senior citizen and care giver. I have more to teach you, and show you, as throughout the years, I have learn so much more, since I wrote my first book. I have more information that I have learned about the care giving field, and now I am sharing this information with you my readers, on what I know.I have written short stories, poems, and small documentaries on my favorite subjects. I like taking photographs and writing stories about the pictures. I have been a care giver since I was nineteen years old. I have worked off and on in the care giving field. I have done private care giving, self-employed care giving, and I have worked for companies as an employed care giver. I have worked in memory care facility homes, taking care of people that had Alzheimer's disease, and dementia memory loss.When I was nineteen years old, I married my first husband, Charles. Charles was a large man; he was paralyzed from his waist to his feet. This was caused by having Polio-meningitis when he was a child. I had to learn how to take care of him, he needed me to help him, in the various things he had to do. I had to maneuver him into the wheelchair, lift him into the shower stall, and lift him into a bath tub. I assisted him into a car and assist him to sit in regular furniture. There was no information on how to care give people. There were no books, or videos about how to take care of people, that was handicap challenged, and disabled.As the years went by, I had people requesting me to help them with the needs of his/her family, parents, children. People with disabilities called me, asking for my help. To give him/her baths and dress him/her.I have been proactive in the care of my clients, and seeing how the improvements that the clients went through, in the process of getting well. I have seen many clients win his/her freedom from being in bed. To get out of the bed walking, talking, and literally stepping outside of the home, and be in the sun light for the first time in days, months, and even years, of being a prisoner of his/her bed.I have worked in the medical field for many years as a receptionist, to check in patients for his/her doctor appointment. I made medical record histories for patients. I was also a phlebotomist, drawing blood from patients. I also worked in the laboratory, as a lab technician, processing blood specimens, and many other specimens that had to get processed, and to be sent to other laboratories, for the results to come back to the ordering doctors that needed the results of the test.I have studied many subjects in my life, and the two subjects that helped me to understand people were psychology and sociology. I have read and studied many books on self-care, to help myself first but also, to understand how to help others. I have studied music and learn how to play the piano at the age of nineteen. When I was in my early twenties, I played the piano in church's for weddings, and children's ministries. I have studied the Cello, and I played the Cello in the California State University String Orchestra. My hobbies are many. I love to garden and grow exotic plants. I am a musician, artist, homemaker, seamstress, and especially an author. I love to create things, and make beautiful works of art for my home, and also to give what I make to my family and friends.Read more about this authorRead less about this author