{"id":770,"date":"2014-07-08T20:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2014-09-06T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T18:46:11","slug":"caregiver-thoughts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/caregiver-thoughts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregiver thoughts #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>Gloves make me brave<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; remark made by a Greenville Memorial Hospital Nurse.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re taking care of a life form, and life and metabolism require inputs and generate outputs. This is as true of yourself as it is of the one you&#8217;re caring for. In fact, the processes are basically the same between you and your cared-for (unless maybe you&#8217;re caring for an alien from another planet). So, if you need to help your charge with these functions, inputs or, yes, outputs, just put on a pair of gloves (where warranted) and get it done. Caregivers (professional and amateur, and parents) do that sort of thing all the time. Don&#8217;t make it a bigger deal than it is.<\/p>\n<p>I will never take going to the bathroom for granted ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gloves make me brave&#8221; &#8211; remark made by a Greenville Memorial Hospital Nurse. You&#8217;re taking care of a life form, and life and metabolism require inputs and generate outputs. This is as true of yourself as it is of the one you&#8217;re caring for. In fact, the processes are basically the same between you and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}