22q11 deletion syndrome, mother, raising a child with a disability
I have another book coming out entitled, Chance at Life. It’s novel about the regulars in a dialysis unit and what life is like for people living on borrowed time as they peer over the abyss. Advisors say I need a blog. So I joined Substack. It’s kind of scary because I’m not accustomed to putting my thoughts out there […]
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Hanging up my stethoscope feels like losing a limb. I’ve been a nurse, a nurse practitioner, and a nursing instructor for all of my adult life. Over the years I have listened to thousands of patient’s stories, listened to their hearts, their blood vessels, their bowels, and their lungs. I have touched patients, held their hands, hugged them, made them […]
» Read moreCrisis This Covid-19 crisis moment will go down in history books. Life on this earth is changing before our eyes. An invisible virus brought our world to a standstill. We hide from the virus as it hides from us. In Chinese, the word for crisis consists of 2 characters. The first character means danger, the second character means opportunity. This time […]
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