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...

I cry a lot lately. I always have but the tears I have been letting loose more recently are due to the myriad of emotions this virus has ...

As a hospice nurse, part of the comfort I provide for both patients and their families, is a long lingering hug that says, “I got you, I ...

For the first time, at least for as long as I have been alive, the entire world is going through the same thing simultaneously. This vir...

For the past eight days I have been quarantined at home due to having multiple symptoms that fall in line with the virus. It has been a v...

Each visit I had with Henry, except for only once because it was raining, was outside on the porch swing that hung from an old oak tree i...