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Be The Noodle: 50 Ways To Be a Compassionate, Courageous, Crazy-Good Caregiver
by Lois Kelly
ISBN: 978-1-935444-69-5
Be The Noodle: 50 Ways To Be a Compassionate, Courageous, Crazy-Good Caregiver
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Watch a great video about Be The Noodle here, starring the author, Lois Kelly.
"Lois Kelly has captured the ups and down of caring for a loved one with great humor and wisdom. Her insightful ways to be helpful -- all 50 of them -- are well worth knowing and embracing. This book should be in the hands of every caregiver -- and who isn't a caregiver at some point?"
--The Rev. Paige Fisher, associate rector for pastoral care, Trinity Church, Boston Copley Square
Lois Kelly has done the impossible: she has written her way through one of the most crucial periods in each of our lives -- the modus exodus -- and her writings are not only excellent in a technical sense, but they are also full of compassion -- for both the person exiting life and the one left to tend to that ext and beyond. This is one of those books that can (and should) be read on several levels. It is a superb set of directions for providing a dignified manner of dying while maintaining the sanity of the caregiver. It is an hilarious dialogue about all of those inappropriate things people do in and around dying people. It is a reinforcing guide for those who are placed in the role of caregiver. And it is a model of intelligent and compassionate philosophy about the full cycle of life.
Kelly writes in a manner that is contagious to read. Her 'chapters' are brief followed by a Caregiver Lesson #__ that summarizes the reasons for response to each situation. She discusses medical decisions (and responses to those), hospices, anger, pity, dealing with personal lives while being ever present for the dying person, even how to manage the do-gooders that inundate a household with excessive but well meaning banana bread! Kelly is realistic and shows us how she arrived at her ideas in a way that includes, always, the consideration of her dying mother. She simply has it down to a 'science' -- and is the first to share the concepts that everything she says is just her experienced opinion. Right down to the moments of death and the planning and execution of a memorial service.
Part memoir, part instruction manual, and part a novel of love pushed to unexpected extremes, BE THE NOODLE (a phrase that refers to the Styrofoam piece that supports those who wade too far out in the ocean and keeps them from drowning) is a wildly entertaining and comfortingly compassionate book about 'fifty ways to be a compassionate, crazy-good caregiver'. It is a terrific read!
--Grady Harp
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Be The Noodle is a caregiver's adventure guide, based on the author's life changing journey helping her mother during the last three months of her life. Be The Noodle shows readers how to find superpowers they never knew that had, stay sane, and become compassionate, crazy-good caregivers, one of the most courageous jobs most of us never wanted or have ever been trained to do.
The book's 50 inspiring, pragmatic lessons deal with the crazy things that happen during this unpredictable journey, things that no medical, hospice, or traditional how-to-deal-with-dying books explain. From the gut wrenching, like not being able to call 911 during a crisis once you sign up with hospice and struggling to be kind and helpful when you feel like a sleepless shrew, to the mundane, like dealing with too many banana breads from well wishers and advocating for patient martinis with the oncologist.
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"This book is a lifeboat for those caring for anyone in the last stages of life. Its supplies are plentiful and sustaining: wit, tenderness, generosity, searing clarity and above all compassion. By the end of it's pages you will not only know how to navigate the storms of illness, you will have uncovered a profound treasure; in caring for the dying we can become larger that we have ever imagined and return to life knowing, perhaps for the first time, how to live it well."
--Maria Sirois, Psy.D
Author of Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith and Resilience from Children Facing Illness
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"I can recall a woman whose body was scarred by her cancer treatment writing a poem about her experience, 'I see myself through my husband's eyes. The eyes of a native who overlooks things that only a tourist would notice.'
"Be the Noodle is a book written by a native. It combines and expresses the wisdom of the head and the heart in a way that will help any caregiver no matter what problem they are confronting.
"I have experienced all that Lois Kelly writes about on a personal and professional level and her short, easily understood lessons are a gift to us all. She offers us the opportunity to learn from her experience, and not our mistakes, and realize that though we cannot cure or fix everything we can still care for everyone. People don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care."
--Bernie Siegel,MD
Author of Faith, Hope & Healing and Help Me To Heal
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