How did you find balancing your parents' care with your own life challenging? Changing? Educational?
Many caregivers will tell you that you must remember when caring for others to take care of yourself too. I was always good at that. In fact, the guilt and regrets I have now that they're gone is that I didn't give enough. But eventually I came to understand that to be present fully and with humor and interest mattered as much as being with them all the time.
