home care
- By Colette Kern
- Editor: Michael Dylan Welch
- Haiku
- 6 Comments
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6 thoughts on “home care”
This haiku nicely captures a bittersweet moment.
Aw thank you!! It’s indeed just that!!❤️
Yes! After decades in HH and hospice your haiku brings the intimacy, generosity of spirit and shared humor in incongruous situations. Thanks for the memories!
Oh Cheryl!! So glad it resonates!!! Thank you so much and thanks for being such a skilled and loving presence to so many!!
As a former nurse, this one really touched me, Colette. It perfectly captures that strange dynamic of host/guest which is reversed in home care vs a hospital. And there is just as much of a sense of care in that offered cup of tea as there is in the nurse offering to help the patient with their needs.
Thanks so much , Laura, for your empathic comment and for your skilled and compassionate work!! I know the dynamic well, as the parent of a microcephalic young woman! Our nurses have saved us!!