Stories from Caregivers: Georgi from CALIFORNIA
CA
Georgi
FROM CALIFORNIA
I am helping my friend and coworker Fran who has Carpal Tunnel syndrome in both hands and just had surgery on one hand last week. She is still allowed to work answering phones and doing light duty but it's hard to do a lot of things one handed. I help her get dressed before work and help her get into more comfortable clothing after work. She can't zip or button very well and has been wearing skirts and pullover shirts, nothing with buttons, zippers and nothing too tightly fitted because she can't get it to stay, or get it to move when she needs it to. I have to help her open many things at work and at her home and we usually end up having our meals together as well because of the times that I am helping her. She is very kind and grateful and always offers me dinner at a restaurant but I really like her, she is a good friend and we have a lot of fun when we're cooking together. Fran laughs at her one hand and says she'd be lost without me. She lives alone and I live with many people so she gets to have nice visits and I get quiet time with one person compared to a whole house full of noise. Fran will have to have surgery on her other hand as well and we're already making plans. After she is all healed up and her hands are very well healed and functional, we're going to make a trip across the country in a motor home to visit family members that we have on the east coast. We both have a lot of unused vacation time and we're going to have a great time using it together.
