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Notes on the writing: Scattered through the text are brief accounts of the time when my wife, son, and I took care of my mother when she was dying from lung cancer. These accounts are in italics:
My Mother died in the middle of the night. In the early evening, she was having some difficulty breathing because of fluid in her lungs; and the secretions were coming up in her mouth. My four-year old son stayed with her along with the rest of us. He would wipe his Grandmother's lips with a damp washcloth or Kleenex. He also brought her water. Before he went to bed, he drew and colored a picture for her and propped it on the table beside her bed.
Italics are used to emphasize important points.
The site is the product of years of experience in hospice and palliative care and a book (now in the second edition) and numerous articles I have written on terminal and palliative care. My resume is available here - use back arrow to come back to this site.