Daily Prompt; Google and Rescue Operation
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What was the last…
Daily Prompt; Google and Rescue Operation
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/daily-prompt-searching/, DP, Daily Post
What was the last…
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/daily-prompt-searching/, DP, Daily Post
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
Photographers, artists, poets: show us SEARCHING.
Wow, this is an easy post. The last thing I searched through Google was Hospice. Makes sense doesn’t it after what happened here this morning.
Hospice is for patients that want to remain at home and who are dying within a short time. I am learning quickly that although Medicare governs Hospice, the group working within each area can be quite different.
You have firms that have loving people who really care about the patient as much as they do themselves. Even in one group, the shower gals, there are wonderful, take their time people who give patients showers. Then there are those others who want their paycheck. They rush into your home at the last-minute, rush the shower, leaving you, the care giver, wondering if they just sprayed water over the patient.
Hospice is a wonderful program. It keeps many patients out of nursing homes and in the comfort of their own bedrooms and beds. Family and friends always feel more comfortable visiting in a home setting, especially one they have visited in many times before. When you think of the cold nursing home room and the ever-changing staff and the lack of personal touch, most of us would prefer to die in our own familiar territory.
I guess what it boils down to is compatibility. Hospice, staff, patient, family and care givers all agreeing on the quality of care.
This is actually what Hospice is. My job is to get the best help for my brother that special heart to heart bonding and caring attitude. This is why I am looking else where. To me, when someone you love is dying, the waters should be calm, the voice low, the joy pure, and the best memories in the making, resulting in peace and tranquility.
History
The word “hospice” stems from the Latin word “hospitium” meaning guesthouse. It was originally used to describe a place of shelter for weary and sick travelers returning from religious pilgrimages. During the 1960’s, Dr. Cicely Saunders, a British physician began the modern hospice movement by establishing St. Christopher’s Hospice near London. St. Christopher’s organized a team approach to professional caregiving, and was the first program to use modern pain management techniques to compassionately care for the dying. The first hospice in the United States was established in New Haven, Connecticut in 1974.
There are more than 4,100 hospice programs in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Guam. The majority of hospice programs are Medicare-certified. In 2008, over 1.45 million individuals in the United States received hospice care*.
Hospice is not a place but a concept of care. Eighty percent of hospice care is provided in the patient’s home, family member’s home and in nursing homes. Inpatient hospice facilities are sometimes available to assist with caregiving.
Untouchable
The sky was dark
But the moon shone bright
Your silhouette was
Dancing back at me
I wanted to reach
The sky was dark
But the moon shone bright
Your silhouette was
Dancing back at me
I wanted to reach
Out and touch you so
But I could not for
For you are now not mine
You made that clear
When you left me
And now I see you
Wrapped in another’s arms
And all I can do
Is bow my head and weep
Terry Shepherd
06/04/2013
Someone on Facebook just said it was Thursday. What? Are you sure? Where did Monday through Wednesday go?
What did I do in those three days prior today? Maybe for today I am a box or Rice Crispies Cereal. I think I can hear myself snap, crackle, and pop.
All I really remember from these past few days is Al and frustrations. Maybe I was standing beside Michael Buble when he sang A Foggy Day In London
It is time to put the cereal box feelings a way. Today I want to be beautiful rose with gentle petals opening after a morning dew. Walking with grace and confidence, calm and graceful. Strong standing tall.
A rose that I do see
Standing oh so near to me
Never afraid to stand apart
Showing steady a beating heart
For today I will breathe and inhale
This flower’s strength and I shall
Take the day as it comes
And I shall sing and also hum
That the soul of the Rose is inside of me
And the beauty I carry for all to see.
Terry Shepherd
05/09/2013
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FWF Free Write Friday
Your FWF prompt this week is a word bank…
lazy – rain – perspective –…
Your FWF prompt this week is a word bank…
lazy – rain – perspective – glint – somber – trinket – static
Standing under the rain drops
Crying out to the Gods
A glint of bright light
Lights up the skies
Flashing shadows and sparks
On the trinket upon her finger
As her eyes looked at it
A different perspective
Could be written
Spreading her arms
Wide going around
In slow lazy circles
No matter how or
Where her mind wandered
The static remained strong
Her feet planted
Firmly on the ground
She was beginning
To come out of her
Drunken atmosphere
Somber surrounding her
She knew she was
In love
She had just been
Proposed to
And had said yes.
Terry Shepherd
05/03/2013