Caretakers Need to Care for Themselves with Seth and Lauren Rogen
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I come from a family steeped in talking about your feelings. My family can't stop talking about it. No, they cannot. As much as you would wish, they are incapable of that. I just knew I was completely incapable of dealing with this. And I was just like, this is like a professional level of grief and something that you need to have gone to school to understand how to navigate this kind of thing. And... And that was very helpful.
Seth was the one that was like, I love you. I'm happy to, you know, hold you while you cry, but you need a professional. And I did. I really did. And it really helped.
This episode is brought to you by Cologuard and Pine Solve. Hey, you. Hi, Craig.
How are you, Michelle?
I'm doing pretty good.
Good. We're back at our nice Airbnb taping out here on the West Coast.
It's so beautiful out here.
I know.
Good weather. Coming from, it's like, East Coast doesn't, you know, weather's a little chilly.
In the Midwest, it was, we had our coldest time. And it hit down into the 30s, which isn't that cold for us, but it's cold.
I know, but when you live in cold weather, you know how in Chicago, if it's been zero degrees or below zero, 40 people are like going to the beach. It's like 40 degrees and people are like, it's hot out here. So I feel like I've lost my cold weather edge.
I'm kind of a wimp. Yeah, you have. Yeah, people who live in the Midwest don't know D.C. is warm most of the time.
Yeah, yeah. That's one of the reasons why we like it there. I get it, I get it. I mean, you get pretty good weather. You get all seasons, but the summers are hot and swampy. So it's good to be in L.A., and it's good to be with you.
It's so fun to be with you. I'm just having a ball doing these.
But today we've got, you know, we're talking about some tough stuff.
Some tough stuff.
We've been dealing with.
Yeah. And, you know, we're going to talk about people who are dealing with family members with Alzheimer's. And, you know, I was talking to the crew before we got started. And, you know, you talk about our Uncle Terry, our great Uncle Terry. And we didn't know what. Alzheimer's was or dementia or anything like that back when we were younger. But we've been fortunate. We haven't had to deal with this like some people have.
Just to give listeners some context. So we grew up in a multi-generational household. You know, Robbie was our piano teacher. She was like the piano teacher for the entire neighborhood. And Uncle Terry was kind of this distinguished gentleman who, one thing stood out with Terry, is like every day he wore a suit.
Coat and tie.
And suspenders.
Mm-hmm.
With a brimmed hat. He would wake up every day and shave. He was very regimented. You know, he would eat prunes every day. I remember that distinctly. Stewed prunes. Right. Didn't know why. Now, as I get older, I understand the stewed prunes situation.
He was ahead of the game. He was ahead of the game.
But just setting the stage for as he aged. And he lived into his 80s. 80s. And both he and Aunt Robbie started to age as we grew up and became, I think it was by the time we were in eighth grade. It seemed like middle school age when Terry really started exhibiting signs of dementia. Yeah. it came in the form of nighttime just confusion. So the things that we remembered growing up was always at night because sometimes he started getting up and walking and reliving things. And at first I thought it was nightmares.
Yeah, we always thought it was nightmares. And we only noticed it at night because during the day, mom and dad would handle things and not worry us with it. But at night... You couldn't help it.
But realize that he would get up in his pajamas and leave the house sometimes with no shoes. Yeah. And, you know, and then the search would be on. Where is Terry? You know, he got out and Aunt Robbie was getting older, so she didn't know what to do. So our parents, our mother and father essentially became caretakers for them. And looking back, they were in that sandwich generation where they had young kids that they were raising, not a lot of resources, two really wonderful people who were aging right before their very eyes. My mom, who was staying at home, was, you know, she would take care of Robbie, bathe her, organize her food. Dad would take care of Terry, make sure that he was still shaven.
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