When professional becomes personal… I am a family caregiver
I am a person, wife, mother, daughter and friend. I am a hospice palliative care nurse and educator. I am owner and director of Life and Death Matters. My mother has been diagnosed with a terminal illness, with a prognosis of months. Once again I am a family caregiver. At Life and Death Matters we […]
Question for Hospice Nurses and caregivers – What do you think?
This morning I received this question from my favorite Danish cousin. I am wondering whether being a hospice nurse prepares one for the goodbyes and final loss of a parent? What do you think? Kath
Never in recorded history have human beings died as they will die in this coming century…
Did you know that never in recorded history have human beings died as they will die in this coming century? Death by chronic illness, changing demographics, increased period of time requiring care, decreased caregivers… The good bad and ugly of death and the internet… Death midwives, home funerals, green burial… Baby Boomers are aging! Do […]
From Bonavista to Vancouver Island…. this land was made for you and me!
How I remember singing the song, “This land is your land, this land is my land, from Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from the Arctic Circle to the Great Lake Waters, this land was made for you and me. Yesterday we stood on the rocks at Cape Bonavista. Wow. It was beautiful. The sun was shining. […]
