Jody Johnson Godfrey

I have resided in my previous address for around 11 years in the city limits of Branson and not once did I ever find a tick on myself, even though my little house was MORE than surrounded by trees. The country has always been my perceived place of contentment and solitude—where I want to spend the “last quarter” of the ballgame, so to speak. But as they say, “To get something, one must give up something!” My sacrifice for now getting to live in quiet beauty, serenity and solitude is the...

What I have seen or heard without fail is that the caregiver ends up “succumbing” (by losing their health, quality of life or life) long before the care recipient.

This can be very hard on us and we are expected to just “suck it up,” and hear the general consensus of “They are just animals…” This saying, more often, should be changed to… “They are just humans, what can you expect?”