LEADER 00000nam a2200349Ka 4500 006 m d 007 cr cn--------- 008 201022s2021 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 9780807011751 (electronic bk) 037 39057280-5D49-453E-B614-F595F0991679|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 TEFOD|cTEFOD 099 eBook OverDrive/Libby 100 1 Washington, Kate. 245 10 Already toast|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] |bCaregiving and burnout in america.|cKate Washington. 260 |c2021. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 520 The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support. Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad's diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad's cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full- time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors' appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared: "You're already toast!" Through it all she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions: an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly. As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. Readable, relatable, timely, and often raw, Already Toast —with its clear call for paying and supporting family caregivers—is a crucial intervention in that conversation, bringing together personal experience with deep research to give voice to those tasked with the overlooked, vital work of caring for the seriously ill. 533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York :|cBeacon Press,|d2021. |nRequires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2252 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). 650 7 Biography & Autobiography.|2OverDrive 650 7 Medical.|2OverDrive 650 7 Sociology.|2OverDrive 650 17 Nonfiction.|2OverDrive 655 7 Electronic books.|2local 776 1 |cOriginal|z9780807011508 856 40 |uhttps://naperville.overdrive.com/media/5558792 |zAvailable on OverDrive/Libby 856 42 |3Excerpt|uhttps://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=39057280- 5d49-453e-b614-f595f0991679&.epub-sample.overdrive.com |zSample 856 42 |3Image|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/ %7B39057280-5D49-453E-B614-F595F0991679%7DImg100.jpg |zLarge cover image 856 42 |3Thumbnail|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/ %7B39057280-5D49-453E-B614-F595F0991679%7DImg200.jpg |zThumbnail cover image