Caring for others means waiting for them to get better.
Waiting requires patience.
Patiently waiting for someone to get better is an opportunity to develop more patience but it will never make someone else better.
Patience allows a patient to feel cared for but remain unwell.
When I am well, I no longer need to be cared for.
I need patient care when I need it, not when I don’t need it.
It is easy to become dependent on patient care and attached to those who supply it.
Patient carers need to be needed by their patients as much as patients need their care.
Patients need the caring patience of patient carers as much as carers need both patients and patience.
Without patients, carers are not needed; and without patience, carers are not needed.
Patient & Carer is a co-dependent relationship.
It explores the extremes of patience & impatience, tolerance & intolerance, and caring & bothering.