Posts Tagged "end of life"

How Did We End Up Here?

Posted by on Feb 4, 2012 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

  I spent most of this week at the hospital with an elderly family member recovering from another medical crisis.  Frequent hospitalizations, aging and a need for a better plan required some serious conversations around what the future holds.  We all have visions of staying home for as long as possible and avoiding living our final years in a nursing home.  Having worked in senior health care for most of my career  it isn’t any easier when it’s someone you love faced with tough decisions. Health care providers are facilitating these emotional conversations around end of life and encouraging us to talk about our wishes and preferences for care when we...

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Begin Here “Helping Survivors Manage”

Posted by on Jan 6, 2010 in Healing | 0 comments

Healing is hard work, it may not seem so but it is.  I’ve been home bound as I wait for my broken ankle to heal and for me the hard part is learning to be patient.   You’ll understand my disappointment when I say I got a call from my doctor this week  to tell me the new x-ray shows the bones are misaligned and she is recommending another surgery, gosh just when I was feeling like I was closing in on the finish line.                   It’s hard not to feel sorry for myself but when I think of how others manage more serious grief I know there are things worse than sitting at home with my leg up on a pillow.   I recall the...

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Things I Learned about the Tasks that follow Death

Posted by on Jun 24, 2009 in Healing | 0 comments

I’ve done a bit of research on information that would have been helpful a few weeks ago on “what to do when a loved one dies.”  I remember asking our funeral home director if they had a checklist on to help us organize all the tasks to be done and I was surprised when he said “we don’t have anything like that.”   I was more surprised that he wasn’t able to recommend a resource for us.  My curiosity got the best of me and having the role of daughter, nurse, care coordinator, sister and end of life closer I decided to do some web browsing now that I’ve completed my sisters affairs.  I found a few web resources with...

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