The day my sister came home from the hospital after her first breast cancer surgery, I went to the local drugstore to pick up her initial dose of medicine. I had her insurance information and a $20 bill in my pocket. The pharmacist told me the total was “seventeen fifty.” Great, I thought, I can [...]
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What $20 Gets You
Posted in Women's Health, tagged cancer, health-care reform, healthcare, hospice, insurance on November 4, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Caregiver, Typically a Woman’s Role
Posted in Women and Work, tagged caregiving, cargiver, family caregiver Alliance, Fem 2.0, hospice, Twittercast, woman's role on July 13, 2009, | 9 Comments »
My whole world zeroed in on the doctor’s lips as he asked me if I wanted them to keep my mother on life support or to let her die “a natural death.” It was as if I were watching a movie where the rest of the room blacked out and those lips grew to take [...]
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