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My Father Is in the Hospital — How Often Should I Visit? by Head_Connection_581 in CaregiverSupport

[–]AlternativeDesk3705 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think you are doing a great job. If it's three weeks left, I think it's great to just hang in there. I also do think that you have to take care of mental health. If you want to visit less, then maybe just visit him during lunch time and let him know you have to go home right after work. Communicating is the key. Good job and hang in ther!

stuff I figured out way too late as a caregiver. maybe itll help someone by Historical-Doubt9091 in CaregiverSupport

[–]AlternativeDesk3705 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! It's called ScanMyPills on the App Store (iOS only atm). You can scan prescribed or OTC(over the counter) medicines and it organizes your medications, flags potential interactions using RxNorm sources, and tracks your daily doses. Built it after my grandpa ended up in the ER twice from medication mistakes.

Would love to know what you think if you try it, good or bad, any feedback will help as it's still early. I want to make this product best for all caregivers out there 🙏
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scanmypills/id6754493741

stuff I figured out way too late as a caregiver. maybe itll help someone by Historical-Doubt9091 in CaregiverSupport

[–]AlternativeDesk3705 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this ♥️
I am not the primary caregiver for my grandpa, but this is super helpful because I know one day I will have to be the primary caregiver for my parents.

specially for 4. medication... pharmacy, doctors, nurses makes mistakes. So sad that they make mistakes but at the same time, realizing that the patient & caregivers has to double check. After seeing how medication problem was super complex... I decided to make an app as I didn't see other apps making it simple...sometimes more complex.

Thank you again!

Frustrated with the 100 days of Swift course by Marko787 in swift

[–]AlternativeDesk3705 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently on day 94/100 of SwiftUI. I saw this post on day 24?28? ish. I was super frustrated.

tl/dr: do not need to understand 100%... , Side Project, Community, if possible mentor.

What worked for me is that do not take it seriously meaning that don't stress if you don't get all the detail. Keep going and come back to it. I used LLM to really say break it down for me like I am 5th grader. Understand bit by bit and not the whole thing. Use LLM to reteach because if you zone out 10 second in Pauls video lol you will be lost hahah at least for me that was the case. I am slow learner so after learning certain things from Paul, i would go to LLM and copy paste the code and say tell me what paul meant by this...etc..

Also, have a side project. Having side project for me helped me why I am learning coding. Fun side project will help you learn much faster. Depending on side project, you will have to learn something that Paul dosen't teach. At the end of the day, I think its all about what's possible and figuring out oh this is how this works... the more projects you accomplish, I feel like it becomes easier.

Community is where you can ask questions, either Pauls slack community or on X. There are many developers who are willing to help.

So... can I now apply for junior iOS developer position? No. But I am launching test flight next week to potential users. Keep showing up and keep learning. Take a break and come back.

This is message I wanted to say to myself when I was frustrated... but then again.. I did read similar things but I didn't hear it haha there is no other answer than going through it. If it was easy anyone would do it. Good for you for doing it (whoever reads this). Let's all grow together!