Engram is a member of the 'sandwich generation', adults who find themselves caring for two generations: the young children they are raising and the parents who raised them. — OLEG MITYUKHIN/Dreamstime/TNS
BECKY Engram is redefining what it means to spend time with her family. The 48-year-old mother of two is learning to split her time between being a parent and taking care of her ailing father. Everyone needs her time and attention. Nobody's getting enough.
Engram's 78-year-old father, Bruce Dunning, has been in and out of the hospital since he started having heart problems late last year. Once fiercely independent, he now wants someone with him at all times. So Engram regularly makes the 3 1/2-hour drive between her home in Marietta, Georgia, and his in Huntsville, Alabama, sometimes staying for weeks.Recently, her husband, Derek, drove their boys to Huntsville so they could spend the day skating with Mum while she took a break from her father's hospital bedside.
