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100 1  Washington, Kate. 
245 10 Already toast|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
       |bCaregiving and burnout in america.|cKate Washington. 
260    |c2021. 
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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. 
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