Trying to Do It All: Balancing Full-Time Work, a Health Condition and Caring for My Parents

There are days where I genuinely wonder how I’m still going.
Not in a dramatic way. Just in that quietly-exhausted, slightly-detached, autopilot mode kind of way.

Because right now, I’m working a full-time job, managing a long-term health condition and caring for two disabled parents who don’t financially qualify for the level of support they actually need.

It’s a lot.
And some days, it feels impossible.