Mastodawn

To folks who know me, and to folks who don't. I'm Rob Parsons, long time resident of Mastodon, and I have written a book of short stories, which I am now selling to raise funds for my local hospice, St Peter and St James. The stories are mostly fantasy, but there's quite a wide variety. You can find out more at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578541627142

It's available at https://ko-fi.com/s/19f8a3feeb

Every copy you buy offsets the calories in your last Easter egg. #books #writing #hospice #easter

🇨🇦 Shani Komulainen 🍁3d ago

We've lost two giants of compassionate care, in Canada & internationally - Stephen Lewis (today) & Dr Balfour Mount (last September). This was my shot of them when Lewis spoke at the 2014 Intl. Palliative Care Congress in Montreal. #Canada #Healthcare #AIDS #Hospice

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Daniel M. Reck 6d ago

We lost a great one today. 105th birthday was earlier this month.

#PublicSchool #teacher for decades. Artist. Learner of languages.

#GirlGeek before it was cool. Her first #tech was a Compaq luggable followed by an IBM PS/2. Was still active on her computer at 100 years old.

Mother. Grandmother. And 39 days ago, great grandmother.

Fitting for a lifelong #educator, her final act in #hospice was to help train a nurse on ultrasound-visualized IV placement.

We will miss you. Love always. #Peace

Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️Mar 27

CW- end of life

My friend is dying. She has multiple issues and MS that has her paralyzed. She is so angry with the situation: illness, the medical system, one of her kids cutting her off. It's understandable! I can't be there because of health and distance. She has chosen MAID at some point (medically assisted legal death). This does not bother me in any way. I wish I could help her find peace (maybe that's not my job, and I am not a qualified......???). How do you process the injustice of illness and the medical system? I am guessing she's not done yet on some level. I just really wish her some sort of peace or better last days.

Just throwing this out there if anyone has been through this and or has a link for useful stuff.

#EndOfLife #MS #MAID #terminal #hospice #death

Daniel M. Reck Mar 26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116292195440386555

Meanwhile... I sit here in the #USA arguing with family about the cost of #hospice care for a woman who gave decades of her life as a #PublicSchool #teacher.

#UniversalHealth #Healthcare #affordability #ConceptsOfAPlan

Colleen B

Mar 24

Having spent the last several months dealing with the healthcare system and my mother-in-law's terminal illness, I highly recommend asking for a palliative consult as soon as possible. Also hospice provides such beautiful care for end of life where no treatment is available. It's a shame Manitoba only has 16 hospice beds but we hope for the future. #Illness #Cancer #Hospice

Longreads Mar 23

"My sister called: our father was about to die. Our parents, long divorced, were both in hospice, on opposite coasts." —Amanda Peet for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan?src=longreads

#longreads #family #hospice #cancer #writing #reading

Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents

The actress, whose movies and TV shows include “Something’s Gotta Give,” “The Whole Nine Yards,” and “Your Friends and Neighbors,” on getting treatment with support from her husband, David Benioff.

The New Yorker

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Daniel M. Reck Mar 22

The #FinalMission was accomplished. Well done, bro. Well done, sis. You moved heaven and earth to make it happen.

She's still with us, and every day of #life from here is a special extra #blessing beyond all the gifts she's already given us throughout our lives.

#hospice

The New Yorker Mar 21

Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan

Daniel M. Reck Mar 20

There is perhaps no experience so profound as being involved in another human's final moments in this life.

And nothing so surreal as sitting with someone in #hospice while reading news about #war in #Iran and #Gaza, and humanitarian crises of #starvation, #violence, and pilferage perpetuated by the #rich and those in #power.

#Humanity is unspeakably beautiful and ineffably cruel.