a young hospice nurse makes a promise to her dying patients
Emily Gagnon is a hospice nurse. She lives in Waterdown, Ontario. Her Facebook post to…
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hilda zlataroff should have died of old age
Family care partner Nicole Jaouich visited her 102-year-old mother Hilda Zlatoroff in a Quebec long-term…
3 things to know when you can’t be with someone you love as they are dying
Palliative care physician Dr. Mike Harlos gives advice to other palliative care doctors and nurses…
euthanasia
June 26, 2019: I wrote this a month or two before I had to put…
eternal anguish
At some point in most dementia care partners’ experience they will find themselves on this…
the truth behind my mother’s death: august 16, 2016
“A blossom fell from off a tree, it settled softly on the lips you turned…
the dystonia did us in: august 15, 2016
Six days earlier, Mom had told me she was comfortable with her chin to her…
one last sing-along: august 13, 2016
Mom was in bed when I arrived on August 13, but she was articulate, alert,…
like puppets on a string: august 12, 2016
Three days before, Mom had been curled up in the shape of a question mark,…
it wasn’t what she said, it was how she said it: august 10 & 11, 2016
It was fairly easy for me to tell when Mom had been inappropriately and/or overly…