Sandwich Caregiving
The challenges and rewards of caring for young children and aging parents at the same time Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Emily Ellison wanted to help. She just wasn’t sure how to manage everything. The Wicker Park mom was juggling the demands of raising her 3- and 6-year-old children while caring for her 73-year-old mother-in-law, […]
Purpose Through Parkinson’s
Wauconda man turns diagnosis into advocacy, teaching, and motivation Robert Baittie began experiencing subtle symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in 2009. The Wauconda resident had a loss of smell, periodic stumbles on carpet, spatial imbalance, and prolonged weakness in his left leg and hand during physical activity. Two and a half years later, physicians diagnosed Baittie […]