Facing terminal illness

With the diagnosis of a terminal illness, mortality gets to sit at your table, right next to the knife and fork, up close and personal, whispering messages that you might die much sooner than you thought. You do not get to continue to view death from the large platform called life, but from the edge of…

The nurse in us all

Nurses and carers stay bonded in friendship because we share things that others don’t. We watch strangers die, holding their hands and consoling them and their loved ones. We watch miracles take place as we help babies come into this world, seeing the rawness of love and its pure beauty. Doctors often deliver the good or bad…