It was with sadness and dread that I received a phone call from one of our hospital discharge planners telling me a patient, Joyce, had gone home and wanted me to call her. Joyce was a former coworker with me in another agency and was, ironically, their first hospice nurse.
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That was the caption on a mug I saw on the web. I don’t know how I arrived at this website but you all know how that works—finding yourself at your next place before you’re ready to arrive. Uh hum, that little happy place (that’s sarcasm y’all). Hmmm, if only I could. I detest writing. I find it an inexplicably painful...
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“One thing I can tell you for certain is that you will lose your hair before your second treatment. And my advice is to buzz your head before it starts to fall out. ‘Cause if you wait ‘til it starts coming out it will be in your bed, it will be in your food, it will be in your shoes. Look me in the eye.
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As a Hollywood writer with twenty-one scripts to my credit, I am no stranger to stories from the heart. How did I know, that I, myself, would become the center of one so dramatic?
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Here’s Something New To Feel Good About Today! Have you overcome a challenge that at the time seemed insurmountable? What were the circumstances that brought you to your knees? How did you find the strength to rise again? My heart goes out to all those in distress today. I know how hard it can be to pull yourself up when...
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There I was, marching down the same Hartford Hospital corridor I had once walked when my husband received his kidney transplant: a slippery, gray corridor; fluorescent lights above.
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