{"title":"Kate Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into Kate Washington's insightful explorations of food, family, and the complexities of modern life. Perfect for readers who enjoy poignant memoirs and thoughtful social commentary. Start browsing now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"already-toast-book-kate-washington-9780807055526","title":"Already Toast","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband-and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlready Toast\u003c\/i\u003e shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles. When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple- professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad's diagnosis stripped those identities away- he became a patient and she his caregiver.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Brad's cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors' appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs. She became so burned out that, when she took an online quiz on caregiver self-care, her result cheerily declared- \"You're already toast!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through it all, she felt profoundly alone, but, as she later learned, she was in fact one of millions- an invisible army of family caregivers working every day in America, their unpaid labor keeping our troubled healthcare system afloat. Because our culture both romanticizes and erases the realities of care work, few caregivers have shared their stories publicly.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the baby-boom generation ages, the number of family caregivers will continue to grow. 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