04622cam a2200793 4500 978287355 TxAuBib 20230913120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807011751 0807011754 B08BKSCN78 Amazon 39057280-5d49-453e-b614-f595f0991679 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5558792 OverDrive (Product ID) 659447 659447 659447 TxAuBib Washington, Kate. Already Toast [e-iNC eBook] : Caregiving and Burnout in America. Beacon Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2253kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. self love books for women. biographies and memoirs. women's history month. good books for women. autobiography books. women in history. feminist thought. autobiographies. Feminist theory. books for women. sociology books. medicine books. feminism books. feminist books. feminist gifts. medical books. Autobiography. history books. feminist book. memoir books. biographies. Education. Biography. parenting. self help. Sociology. feminist. feminism. Medicine. wellness. Memoirs. History. health. memoir. HTML:<b>The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.</b><br /> <i>Already Toast</i> shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver.<br /> Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: “You’re already toast!”<br /> Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly.<br /> As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, <i>Already Toast</i>—with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Sociology. Medical. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-09-13 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=39057280-5d49-453e-b614-f595f0991679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=39057280-5d49-453e-b614-f595f0991679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=39057280-5d49-453e-b614-f595f0991679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)