Category Archives: Emergency/Crisis Medical

After I left

Posted on March 26, 2018 by dgermann

After I left our meeting, I had a call for an emergency appointment. The person arrived a few minutes after I got back to my office. Her husband of 40+ years was in the hospital, unconscious. The doctors said he … Continue reading →

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Best time!

Posted on March 20, 2018 by dgermann

This is the best time of life! :- Doug.

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Mining medical crises

Posted on January 27, 2018 by dgermann

We can be mining medical and other crises for their meaning, making memories with the people we meet. :- Doug.

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Families in crisis

Posted on November 28, 2017 by dgermann

We help families in crisis get help to pay for care in a nursing home or at home. :- Doug.

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Giving up on them

Posted on October 27, 2017 by dgermann

By not calling hospice sooner families are giving up on their loved ones, giving up on their ability to live their last months fully. :- Doug.

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If you wish

Posted on October 21, 2017 by dgermann

The 17 Things are surface things, physical for the most part. But some of them do touch the heart. They allow you, if you wish, to go deeper, more intimate, with those you love. If you wish. :- Doug.

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Talk about?

Posted on October 21, 2017 by dgermann

In your end of life conversation: What are you going to talk about? :- Doug.

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Thought I could relax!

Posted on October 4, 2017 by dgermann

Why won’t life settle down? I thought now I could relax! :- Doug.

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Life is

Posted on September 30, 2017 by dgermann

You’re not in control; life is in control. :- Doug.

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Waging an heroic embrace

Posted on May 15, 2017 by dgermann

She waged an heroic battle against her disease, we say. Why give the disease that much power? Can we find some stories to tell, some conversations we need with which to embrace one another? :- Doug.

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Die alone

Posted on May 14, 2017 by dgermann

To let someone die alone and in severe pain is a failure of medical (and human) imagination :- Doug.

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In illness we are stuck

Posted on May 13, 2017 by dgermann

In illness we as visitor, as sufferer, are stuck in the pain and againstness. How might we free ourselves? The very how might be in the act of traveling elsewhere. Yesterday always fades in today’s new thing. :- Doug.

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Earning a patina

Posted on April 20, 2017 by dgermann

Doctors propose to put you through something now to possibly give you more time later. This is a thought that fits middlers very well, but elders not so well. For elders living now earns a patina day by day. Hug … Continue reading →

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Medical people in an emergency

Posted on March 11, 2017 by dgermann

POST is limited to 4 things precisely because medical people in an emergency do not have time to make nuanced calls. :- Doug.

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Now’s the time

Posted on February 4, 2017 by dgermann

Now’s the time to think of end of life stuff—while you can be clear-headed and not under pressure to make too-fast decisions. :- Doug.

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family gathers

Posted on December 31, 2016 by dgermann

When someone is ill in hospital, family gathers. Do we feel there is healing in bringing close all these centers, loci? :- Doug.

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POST is for after

Posted on March 23, 2016 by dgermann

Living Wills, Durable Health Care Powers of Attorney, and the like are for before I get a diagnosis. POST is for after. :- Doug.

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