Saying What One Feels: Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver, Published by Outskirts Press
Elkhart, IN, January 15, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Authors and veteran caregivers Eric and Betsy Semple today announced the release of Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver, Well Prepared But Maybe Ill Prepared…, published by Outskirts Press. The Semples take an innovative and helpful new tack on the subject of care giving by showing how both patient and caregiver can benefit from sharing their innermost feelings in long term care situations.
After years of putting off bilateral knee replacement, Betsy Semples finally scheduled her hospital stay and she and her husband began practicing their new roles. She worked on being more trusting and patient. Eric started drilling his duties as rehabilitation coach. The event became far less than simple, however, than they had planned because breast cancer was discovered before Betsy left the hospital.
In the following four years of treatment Betsy and Eric learned that the caregiver/patient relationship is a unique one that requires negotiating the sometimes slippery slope of sharing feelings that range from fear to anger to frustration to sadness to joy and hope. Each had to discover what their own coping mechanisms were and learn anew all they thought they had known about sharing their feelings with each other. Their book shares with readers the many lessons they learned.
Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver does not busy itself with the nitty gritty, everyday tasks of serious illness or with medical decisions about long term care. Instead, it tackles the more delicate subject of exploring one’s inner feelings during long term treatment and teaches both caregivers and patients how to share their feelings to their individual benefit as well as to the benefit of their relationship.
“Feelings are neither right nor wrong. They just are,” write the authors, “We simply share how we feel.”
Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
ISBN: 978-1-4327-5549-2 Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream SRP: $17.95
Genre: Medical/care giving/family and relationships/elder care/emotions
About the authors:
Twelve years ago Betsy and Eric Semple retired and moved from twenty miles south of San Francisco to Betsy’s family’s home in Elkhart, Indiana. At one point their friends had decided they needed to experience a Marriage Encounter Weekend and as a result, they have become a team and have led a hundred such weekends over a twenty year period. They also have trained and mentored a number of other couples as teams and have adapted their own personal materials for use with the Church Community Services “Soup of Success” program in Elkhart. This program teaches women who have made poor choices in life the skills they need to return them to productive lives.
For more information or to contact the authors, visit www.outskirtspress.com/pleasebepatient.
About Outskirts Press, Inc,: Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd. - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
After years of putting off bilateral knee replacement, Betsy Semples finally scheduled her hospital stay and she and her husband began practicing their new roles. She worked on being more trusting and patient. Eric started drilling his duties as rehabilitation coach. The event became far less than simple, however, than they had planned because breast cancer was discovered before Betsy left the hospital.
In the following four years of treatment Betsy and Eric learned that the caregiver/patient relationship is a unique one that requires negotiating the sometimes slippery slope of sharing feelings that range from fear to anger to frustration to sadness to joy and hope. Each had to discover what their own coping mechanisms were and learn anew all they thought they had known about sharing their feelings with each other. Their book shares with readers the many lessons they learned.
Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver does not busy itself with the nitty gritty, everyday tasks of serious illness or with medical decisions about long term care. Instead, it tackles the more delicate subject of exploring one’s inner feelings during long term treatment and teaches both caregivers and patients how to share their feelings to their individual benefit as well as to the benefit of their relationship.
“Feelings are neither right nor wrong. They just are,” write the authors, “We simply share how we feel.”
Please Be Patient. I’m Just a Caregiver is available on-line in paperback through Amazon and Barnes and Noble and at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore for a maximum trade discount in quantities of ten or more.
ISBN: 978-1-4327-5549-2 Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream SRP: $17.95
Genre: Medical/care giving/family and relationships/elder care/emotions
About the authors:
Twelve years ago Betsy and Eric Semple retired and moved from twenty miles south of San Francisco to Betsy’s family’s home in Elkhart, Indiana. At one point their friends had decided they needed to experience a Marriage Encounter Weekend and as a result, they have become a team and have led a hundred such weekends over a twenty year period. They also have trained and mentored a number of other couples as teams and have adapted their own personal materials for use with the Church Community Services “Soup of Success” program in Elkhart. This program teaches women who have made poor choices in life the skills they need to return them to productive lives.
For more information or to contact the authors, visit www.outskirtspress.com/pleasebepatient.
About Outskirts Press, Inc,: Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd. - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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