By Banker White | Director
Happy New Year to our wonderful GlobalGiving Community,
We want to start the year with a special thank you message. We are deeply grateful to you, our community, for your generous support, love and kindness. So many people reached out to us this holiday season to thank our family and our team here at the Genius of Caring for the support and validation they have felt through watching The Genius of Marian and other projects we have produced. It was a reminder of how much of my mother spirit is still driving this project. She was a gifted social worker and an amazing listener. She helped people believe in themselves and cultivated strong and supportive community networks and friendships. I am so proud of what we have been able to accomplish as a community and I am excited to coninue to grow and learn into 2018 and beyond.
With love and appreciation,
Banker
PROJECT UPDATE
We are excited to share that we will soon be releasing our latest portrait of Dolores and Chuck English. As you may remember Dolores and Chuck were a warm, giving, loving couple that had been together for 36 years. Chuck passed away from late stage Lewy Body dementia last year.
Here is a message from Dolores:
"My husband Chuck, the love of my life, passed away on March 12, 2017.
During the last two or three weeks of his life he had a difficult time swallowing liquids and solid foods. The swallow specialist changed his diet to thicken fluids and puréed food, but also told me this issue would increase to the point where he would stop eating and taking fluids.
After that conversation, I reached out to hospice. Another layer of care was comforting to me, but it only lasted for nine days.
My heart is broken, my life without him seems surreal.
For those caregivers out there, enjoy every moment your loved one shares with you!"
Dolores has been very committed to helping other family caregivers and believes her and Chuck's portrait can help others. We feel honored to have met them and look forward to shaing their story. This past December we met up with Dolores for another interview and are now edititting their portrait. Please check our website http://geniusofcaring.com/ and fb page www.facebook.com/TheGeniusOfMarian/ for update sabout when the film will be released.
The Genius of Caring is designed to support caregivers and to provide students, healthcare professionals and others with a glimpse into the caregiving experience. We seek to feature the wide range of family caregivers and those living with caregiving intensive diseases.
By Banker White | Director
By Banker White | Director
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
