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When siblings share caregiving responsibilities from different distances

My brother and I are both dealing with our mom's lung cancer but he lives across the country and I'm here managing her daily breathing treatments and oxygen tanks, and when he visits he acts like he knows what's best but he doesn't see how exhausted she gets just walking to the bathroom.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic separation is creating different relationships to the same crisis, breeding resentment between people who need each other's support.

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“Where Are You with Respiratory health and breathing?”

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