About her career as a Hospice Nurse and her book, Margaret Dodson says: I have been hored to share in the living, dying, and deaths of the most extraordinary ordinary people. I have entered into lives months away from their dying and moments away from their dying. Each person I have met in this work has been etched into my heart; how could I help but be touched by them? I realized that I needed to go away for a few days with a list of the people and families I had cared for during the year, and I needed time to spend my last visit with them privately to say goodbye. As I sat looking at the sea and feeling so full of these stories, they began to pour from me onto these pages. I would look at a name and I was transported t only to that person but also to that family, their home, the conversations, the intimacies, the suffering, the peace and even the joy. It would be presumptuous to say I have become wise by these experiences, but my gratitude for this enrichment is boundless. Much of the time I do t feel wise; yet, as the years have passed and the stories accumulate, I do feel as though I have acquired lessons to share. The lessons Margaret has learned are this book.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Createspace
ISBN-10
1497538718
ISBN-13
9781497538719
eBay Product ID (ePID)
220819947
Additional Product Features
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Margaret Pecoraro Dodson has been an R.N. for 32 years working mostly in the areas of Mental Health and Hospice. She was a clinical instructor at Sacramento State University for seven years and taught in Adult Education for three years.
