Clik here to view.
I am Broken now ....(long post I'm sorry)
annj49:This is so beautifully shared from the heart. I had to reblog….. Sorry for your loss. I’m so glad nothing was left unsaid between you two. AJ Originally posted on butchcountry67: Before I begin...
View ArticleA Gentle Approach to Dementia
When I first became a hospice social worker I was taken aback to realize that more than half of my patients were diagnosed with advanced dementia. I had been under the assumption that I would be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Waiting for Dad
Again, it is 5 a m and I am awake. My cough has woken me, hopefully not the rest of the household. Justin and Rebecca arrived last night from NYC to go to a wedding tomorrow night. They stayed here...
View ArticleWhy Home Care is More Important than Readmission Rates: Implications for...
The Affordable Care Act added a section to the Social Security Act known which established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Under the new fines as described in an article by Kaiser Health...
View Article10 Great Opening Lines from Novels I Love
Waking, my feet remained stuck under the covers, in a dream about a story, this morning. The story
View ArticleThe Power of Routine
I don’t particularly like most holidays and can have a bit of a problem with vacations. It’s not that I don’t enjoy leisure, it just really throws off my routine when the rest of the world shuts down...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Short Shelf Life of Immortality
One might think that the biggest drawback to being dead is that we can no longer experience being with those we love. While this belief has merit, it doesn’t have any money-making potential. But, if...
View ArticleAbsolute Consequence
Crushing blows, in the darkness of night, becomes blinding fear, incapacitating the consciousness, and, he is in a dream…. round and round stirring about, the realness, has gone, a moment ago he was...
View ArticleAffirmation Sublime
When the night is thick and the wind is cold and you sleep in your bed all alone when your time has come with the deepness of rem that’s when its time to see them again. Stir they do, ever so quietly,...
View ArticleMy Heart Cries
~~~ For those who grieve, my heart cries. For those who have buried a child, my heart cries.
View ArticleCannabis and The Pineal Gland: Turn On The Third Eye
Cannabis & The Pineal Gland: Turn On The Third Eye – Waking Times : Waking Times. From and
View ArticleWe Have These Memories
Our lives are marked by calendars and dates. We celebrate holidays throughout the year. We keep up w
View ArticleClik here to view.
In the House of Fortune
https://maxadaland.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/in-the-house-of-fortune.mp3 I’ll tug at her apron while she reads books, and whistle off tune while she bakes bread, and I’ll climb in clogs on bare wood...
View ArticlePrimary vs. Secondary Emotions
I find that much of what I do with my patients and families involves normalizing the experience of reacting to adverse situations from a human perspective. It is surprising how many people become...
View ArticleBarbara Kay: No one really wants euthanasia. Suffering people want an end to...
I return this week to the topic of my last column: Euthanasia, considered until mere decades ago an audacious, immoral notion, has shed its aura of transgression. State endorsement was pioneered in the...
View ArticleQuality vs Quantity
~~~ It’s not the quantity of life that matters, but rather the quality of life. It’s not having time
View Article10 Specific Suggestions for How to Help a Grieving Friend - by Howard Whitman
boomer98053:This fabulous article really captures the essence of what those grieving need from those
View ArticleCanadian Medical Association says assisted suicide may be humane option
For the first time, the Canadian Medical Association is acknowledging that helping a suffering patient die may be a doctor’s most humane option. The organization’s updated and recently approved policy...
View ArticleThis Is When I Think of You - A Meditation for Fellow Caregivers
Yes, you. My fellow caregiver. I think of you most often as I walk out of Mom’s senior living place. Perhaps it is 9:45 p.m. on a frigid winter night. I worked all day and then drove the half-hour...
View ArticleDen Tandt: Ruling on physician-assisted suicide will put MPs in awkward position
Despite MPs’ strenuous efforts to avoid ever talking about what used to be called “deeply felt matters of faith and morals,” such a discussion is now upon them, courtesy of the Supreme Court of Canada,...
View Article
