I am writing this on the day of my graduation of a program that certified me to become an end of life doula. I have spent most of the mor...

Every morning I wake up the same way; I check the time, thankful for the additional twenty minutes I usually end up having before I need ...

When people ask me why I do the work I do, which is a question I get often, I usually say the same thing each time; while yes, I see a lo...

I think it is fair to say that after someone dies, we look for signs that they are still out there watching over us, or simply paying us ...

Every Friday I see a patient for wound care, he is not actively dying but he is declining and being in his 90’s I think that would be exp...

I was sitting at the bedside with the wife of a man who was nearing the end of his life. This is not unusual for me, as it is my professi...

As I was driving away from my visit with my granddaughters recently, I thought to myself, “what if this is the last time I see them”, whi...

One of the most valuable lessons I have learned as a hospice nurse, is the importance of the team you share a patient with. Early on I di...

As the weeks and now months pass me by, I find myself feeling less and less hopeful that we will get through this any time soon, and I am...

About a year or two ago I wrote a letter to my family letting them know what I want when I die. I did this because I work in hospice and ...

I spent many hours at the bedside with a man who had been under our care for quite some time, and who was dying… a long and tedious death...

Every morning for the past six months I have kept in contact with a woman who lost her husband. The day after he died, I sent a red heart...

The last words I spoke to my dad before he died, was a message I left on his answering machine. Actually, it was two messages; one saying...

I have seen the look of panic when a family member tells me their loved one is seeing people in their room and having conversations with ...

I walked into the apartment having absolutely no idea what I was going to be presented with, or what my role was to be. There was disconn...

Every morning I wake up with this feeling that things will be back to normal and the Virus will no longer hold space in our lives, as tho...

Being a hospice nurse during a time when our world is trying desperately to navigate the COVID virus has not been easy, to say the least....

I was visiting a patient recently who lived in a facility where there were multiple COVID-positive residents. I walked down the long hallw...

Many years ago, I worked in a hospice house; there were ten beds, which were almost always occupied. Some days, there was a patient alrea...

I have been doing some serious reflecting. I feel a little like a seesaw in that some days I am up... and some days I am down. I know man...