TY - JOUR AU - Reilly-Sandoval, Arlene PY - 2015/12/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Full Circle JF - Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping JA - Reflections VL - 20 IS - 3 SE - DO - UR - https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/1326 SP - 15-17 AB - <p>This narrative is a story about the author’s experience with maternal caregiving.  It discusses situations involving aging and chronic illness.  This story describes how culture impacts caregiving, and how the author learned to be respectful of her mother’s culture while managing the symptoms of chronic illness.  This is also a story of sisterhood, of relationships lost and then rebuilt through the practice of relative caregiving.  This is a story of hope amid unhappy circumstances of a cancer diagnosis, and how caregiving of a parent leads an adult child full circle; from being cared for, to caring for, and then to be cared for again by family.</p> ER -