Audrey May I suggest you join CARE (Caregivers Are Really Essential) Check with Sharon, CARE's "elf" < [log in to unmask] > In a message dated 1/18/00 1:03:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Kathy and Ruth is it ok if I crash in to your messages? Are there any on > this board who are as I am , non related to a pwp, never having met him in > person, and yet attached in a special caring way, who also has to stand by > unable to help even care take? Helplessness I know only too well. My > family is not supportive knowing I spend so many hours connected by icq to a > man 10000 miles away. Maybe someone is sharing the same sort of frustration > I know if so, I would like to hear from you. >