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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Mar 28, 2020
- 3 min
Collectively Vulnerable
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...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Mar 18, 2020
- 5 min
The porch swing
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...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Mar 14, 2020
- 3 min
Trying to find a little joy amidst the chaos
I visited with a patient the other day while at the same time our world was in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis. Before heading in I s...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Mar 7, 2020
- 6 min
Self-Directed Life Closure
I consider it a privilege when we are asked to care for someone at the end of their life; to have them trust us to come into their home, ...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
The red heart text message
Every morning for the past eight weeks, I have sent a text message to a woman whose husband passed away. It started as one red heart, whi...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 25, 2020
- 2 min
The never-ending box of tissue
I have been here before. The room looks different, and the faces have changed but the sounds of tears that echo in my head prepare me for...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 20, 2020
- 4 min
A page from the Diary of a Hospice Nurse
This job is tough. Today was one of those days when I completely understand what people mean when they say, “I don’t know how you can do ...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 15, 2020
- 3 min
Death and the Rainbow Bridge
I recently shared a story on my hospice FB page that really opened something up inside me. One of the things I have become very drawn to ...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 8, 2020
- 2 min
What is a "good" death?
Someone recently asked me why we call it a “good death”. She is the daughter of a man who was nearing the end of his life and someone had...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
Why am I a hospice nurse?
I can’t even count how many days I have forgotten to eat, or to use a restroom or check the mirror to make sure I am still somewhat intac...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Jan 25, 2020
- 4 min
The Hummingbird and the Dragonfly
I have always been attracted to hummingbirds and dragonflies. Someone once told me that if you see a hummingbird soon after someone has d...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Jan 11, 2020
- 4 min
The uncertainty of death
The only real certainty about death is that we are all going to die. We are certain of that. But how and when we die is a question no one...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Jan 4, 2020
- 4 min
My own grief
In one week I could sit with ten different people who are about to or will have lost someone they love. I am witness to the dying process...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Dec 28, 2019
- 4 min
Snapshot
By the time someone comes to us, they have lived their entire lives; we come in at the very end and only get a snapshot. We hear a lifeti...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Dec 22, 2019
- 4 min
The dying process is not always beautiful
I spend a lot of time talking about the beautiful side of death. Working in hospice has allowed me an opportunity to see death in a way t...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Dec 14, 2019
- 3 min
Don't take life for granted
When I applied to nursing school, it was with my full intention to become a hospice nurse; I never entertained anything else. I knew with...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Dec 7, 2019
- 4 min
Their death is not about you
One of the things I continue to learn about life through death is that it is not about me. Despite what I may know, sometimes I need to b...
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Gabrielle Elise Jimenez
- Dec 3, 2019
- 4 min
Don't be afraid to talk about death
I have said this before… but people have a tendency not to ask me how my day was because they are afraid that I am going to tell them. In...
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