A Last Mother’s Day
Terry Hourigan
About the artist:
“I’m a father, nurse, writer and humor lover. After my mom’s death in 1983, I became a hospice volunteer and then decided to go into medical service, leaving a photo career to do so. I went briefly into the NYC emergency medical service, then attended nursing school and went into AIDS and cancer home care and hospice work. It’s been twenty years now, interrupted in 2011 by colon cancer; the chemo rooms gave me some ‘no escape’ time in which I found that I could write.”
About the artwork:
“I met Bernie Siegel in my former photojournalism career. Asked about hospice, he sent me to meet his patient Sonny (pictured with her son, above, at the Branford inpatient facility). ‘Sonny was one special lady,’ he told me. He described how she asked a friend why he was hanging around with her instead of out having fun. He answered, ‘You have touched me, and I have grown.’
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