Rose is okay. Wed was our 1st assessment at Julia Temple-case mgr & PT together. After ER & hip fracture, that's relief. Not good news. Responsiveness. But is she improving? Wrong question since 2013. Dual dispatch-OLH+Care Futures: https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-crossover?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

One week ago my mother-in-law fell. A hallway conversation about surgery risk and DNR status. New dispatch: "She Has Got to Get Up." [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-fa6?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]

Rose fell on June 13. At 94 with end-stage dementia, she sustained a serious fracture. She is being cared for. This week's piece will publish when we're ready. The campaign continues. It pauses, briefly, for my mother.

The entire world supply of rose onyx was used to build the Colorado State Capitol. My mother's name is Rose. She is in the walls. Dispatch Three: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/the-long-game-dispatch-3?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #TheLongGame #ColoradoCAREAct

$1.1M in projected savings from capping caregiver hours. ÷ $33,614 (HCPF's own cost differential) = 32.7. Thirty-three people leaving the workforce erases it. No one modeled this. The CARE Act does. Dispatch One: [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/the-long-game-dispatch-1?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #ColoradoCAREAct #TheLongGame

73% of Gen Z is lonely. 72% of caregivers under 32 report loneliness. The loneliness epidemic and the caregiving crisis are the same crisis. [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-7cb?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]

"Can you help me with my shoes?" Three words. The whole argument. The whole series. New piece. [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-7cb?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true] #ColoradoCAREAct #OurLivesOnHold

Today she doesn't need a card. She needs a protected class. Happy Mother's Day. #ColoradoCAREAct https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/21st-century-guardrails-a-dispatch?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Every time I come home, Rose asks: "Are you here to take me home?" She lives in my house. The anchor matters. The law doesn't see it. [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-e7d?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]

"I can't do that," Rose said at the kitchen window. Same week Kennedy called caregivers frauds. Same week CO cut hours in half. [https://open.substack.com/pub/therevenueneutralcaregiver/p/our-lives-on-hold-993?r=6a52ih&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true]