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" I am as reliant on my mother&amp;#039;s caregivers as my mother is. We both love, respect and admire them, and comfortably count on them during this tenuous time.  So what happens if they need care? If one of them is home alone with Mom and something should befall her? We had a practice round yesterday. The outcome of our practice was excellent. Breathe in faith. Breathe out fear. My Mom&amp;#039;s bedroom is at one long end of the house, so she uses an intercom to let her caregivers know when she needs something. The intercom close to her caregiver had somehow become unplugged. As Mom rang and rang and rang on her end, she began to get worried that something bad had happened. That something bad had happened to this young woman to whom she feels like a mother, to this young woman she loves. Mom called me and I was a Minute Man. Catastrophizing is what she and I do best. For the first five minutes I drive out Broad Street thinking of terrible, horrific scenarios. For the next ten minutes, I remember something a Friend of Bill told me. Breathe in faith. Breathe out fear. By the time I got to Mom&amp;#039;s house, all was well, all was well. My mother and her caregiver were reunited. The culprit plug was identified and the &amp;quot;what if &amp;quot;questions were answered. Call your Designated Daughter, of course, but make sure a trusty neighbor who lives close enough to do any good has a set of keys to your house. Keep cell phones close even though you are in the same house. If the situation warrants call 911.  And breathe in faith. Breathe out fear. Always.  D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com.  Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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