The Wicked Daughter - Managing Your Aging Parents, One Meltdown at a Time

New here? Welcome! This podcast follows my real caregiving story -  managing my aging parent, one meltdown at a time. If you'd like to hear how it all began, start with Episode 1: Welcome to the Right Waiting Room . Caregiving isn't always about doing more. Sometimes it's about making sure the important things don't quietly fall through the cracks. While waiting days for Mom&ap...

One phone call changed everything. One minute I was just a daughter. The next, I was navigating hospitals, impossible decisions, and a role nobody ever prepares you for: caregiver. In this first episode, I share how I became The Wicked Daughter —not because I was mean, controlling, or bossy...but because loving an aging parent sometimes means becoming the person who takes away the car keys, argues...

The sheriff said Mom was alive. That was the good news. Everything after that...got complicated. In this episode, I take you inside the emergency room, where fear, uncertainty, and "hospital time" collide. If you've ever waited hours for answers that never seemed to come, replayed worst-case scenarios in your head, or discovered that every medical update somehow creates three new qu...

"The doctor will be with you shortly." "It shouldn't be much longer." If you've ever waited in a hospital, you know those words can mean absolutely anything. In this episode of The Wicked Daughter , surgery is scheduled... then mysteriously canceled... after the cafeteria apparently gets the memo before the nurses. Between endless waiting, another day without food, an...

Nobody hands you a manual for becoming a caregiver. They just hand you a clipboard. No one prepares you for the waiting. The worrying. The impossible decisions. Or the moments so completely absurd that you can't help but laugh. The Wicked Daughter is an honest, darkly funny podcast about the real life of caring for an aging parent. Because no one should have to navigate this journey alone. Yo...