Note: I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting (#MC) for CaringBridge. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
I remember finding out a long distance friend of mine had breast cancer. I so badly wanted to be there to be there with her, hold her hand and help her. Luckily she found a website called CaringBridge.com where she could update all her out of town friends with how things were going. It was like a journal and she would record everything there, the good, the bad and the ugly. While I couldn’t be there with her physically, it felt great that I still knew what was going on with her at all times.
To celebrate and support caregivers, the strong personal heroes who tirelessly help families get through one day at a time when experiencing a hardship, CaringBridge, the nonprofitcaring social network, and Hallmark Cards are kicking off the “Caring Messages” card contest during National Family Caregiver Month.
From October 28th through November 17th, the “CaringMessages” card contest encourages participants to draw on personal experiences as a caregiver or as someone receiving care and create a message of love and support appropriate for a caregiver. Participants can submit one card idea in each of the following categories to www.hallmarkcontests.com:
Support and Encouragement: What can you say to lift someone up or help them get through the day? Let them know you’re thinking of them, send happy thoughts and cheer them on.
Compliments and Appreciation: Let someone know how much you admire them: What they do and how they do it.
Words from the Wise: If you’ve experienced something yourself you understand what it’s really like. Write a supportive message for others based on what you’ve learned or what you needed to hear.
This partnership aims to provide patients, caregivers and supporters with love, hope and compassion. Winners announced in February will receive a cash prize, and their entry will be sold at Hallmark.com with in-store sale to be determined.
Caring Bridge is such an important service for both the person going through the illness and the people who want to keep up with it so they can pray, or help the family out in some way. We’ve read many friends and families sites while they were going through very hard times and for some we couldn’t tangibly help but it allowed us to know what was going on without feeling like we were overstepping by asking those involved when they were busy, hurting and exhausted.
Caring Bridge is so so so so important for families.
This is so wonderful to keep in touch with those that you care about when they are going through an illness.
I’ve seen this used by friends many times it is such a great service and very helpful so that you don’t have to call everyone to update them you can update all at one time.
Caregivers work so hard and sacrifice so much, It is nice that are remembered, and recognized.