Tag: #caregivers

• Journey to healing: ‘Being Mortal’ by Dr. Atul Gawande

  

  I had no idea how reading ‘Being Mortal- Medicine and what matters in the end’ would help me. The book was suggested to me by blogger, author GS. Subbu, after dad passed away. A line from the book mentioned in GS. Subbu’s review made me want to pick it up – “It is not death…

  Smitha V

  January 4, 2021

  Book Review, Experiences

  #ageing, #atulgawande, #beingmortal, #caregivers, #dealingwithloss, #death, #doctors, #healing, #life, #medicine, #parents, #terminallyill, #truth

• We Have an Answer…at-least partially

  

  For all those who read my post Dad and I…One of the better days, we finally have an answer. The answer isn’t good, and yet there is a peace and calm at home; the kind of peace one gets at reaching the end of a long, arduous journey. Its not the satisfaction of the destination…

  Smitha V

  October 29, 2018

  Creative Writing, Experiences

  #answers, #caregivers, #diary, #doctors, #eldercare, #experience, #family, #illness, #inspiration, #life, #movingon, #oldage, #patients, #peace, #people, #relationships, #sickness, #truth, Creative Writing, Experiences