Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care. Hospice care is a phase of care whereby aggressive treatment …
One of the worst things that can happen in life is losing a spouse. How do I know? It happened to me — and in the prime of my life. When it happens, many thoughts and emotions whiz through your mind. Only four months earlier, my husband and I had completed a Christian counseling …
I have seen grief at its worse. A friend of mine lost her husband at sea, and the body was never found. She did not know whether to let go or continue to cling to her hope that someday they would meet again. With no body to bury, she hanged onto hope and despair. …