Uncertain
The more we can do to help a disease, the more uncertain the timing. As diseases move from acute to chronic, the less we know when our end is coming.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2014
the long conference
My forte is the long conference. It is important to me to know people, to absorb one another.
:- Doug.
Time does not exist apart from us
Time does not exist apart from us. It is a human only construct.
:- Doug.
We can own this issue
We can own this issue. We can engage medicine in the conversation. We can make it easier for the doctors to have the conversation.
:- Doug.
Fuzzy edges, anonymity
Fuzzy edges, anonymity allowed, reward conversation—these help spread the message.
:- Doug.
As if this were the day?
The question of living while we’re dying is one of living with uncertainty in the extreme. We don’t know what the next test or procedure will produce, but can we not live and love as if this were the day to do so?
:- Doug.
Unless we so clench our teeth
There is nothing wrong with looking for minuscule possibilities of extending life or regaining health. Unless we so clench our teeth we do not live our lives now as fully as ever we can.
:- Doug.
full life, when?
Ordinary medicine has its eyes on a someday far horizon; hospice on right now. Do you want to live a full life, when?
:- Doug.
Emotions even when
Emotions are a central part of all decisions, even when the decision is to hold all emotions at bay and proceed only on our perceived absence of emotions, termed logic.
:- Doug.
How to love in a nursing home?
How to love in a nursing home?
How do we bring life to Mom?
A good day to Dad?
:- Doug.
seems a pathway
God seems a pathway
More, its walking
Or, its undulating, swaying
Maybe that’s what we see
When we say, living
:- Doug.
Cure, salve, presence:
Cure, salve, presence: what we can do for one another. Any one can heal.
:- Doug.
All the wind–
All the wind—
It’s a great ventilating day
All the clouds—
The day is working us
All the sun—
The living day is generating, generating
:- Doug.
