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What Death has Taught Me About Life
Things I have learned about life from taking care of the dying
By Janice Badger Nelson RN · Launched 5 months ago
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Thoughts on Loss
I want to share with you a beautiful poem. DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC by Edna St. Vincent Millay I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the…
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I hate emoji’s 🙁
When was the last time you wrote a letter? Or received one? Perhaps a birthday or Christmas card with a handwritten note? For many, not recently. I’m…
Janice Badger Nelson RN
Mar 25
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Did I Love Enough?
Many people ask me about regrets. “What do people say they regret the most at the end of their lives?” I have seen this question posed numerous times. I…
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Mar 12
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Did I Love Enough?
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It’s time to get small.
Ugh. This week has been tough. So much going on in the world. The news nonstop. The hospitals we work in, still full. The politics, the anger. It feels…
Janice Badger Nelson RN
Feb 26
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Home Sweet Home
“May this be a safe place Full of understanding and acceptance, Where you can be as you are, Without the need of any mask Of pretense or image.” ~from a…
Janice Badger Nelson RN
Feb 18
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All the Grief You Cannot See
I want you to meet Jane. She works at the local grocery store. All day long she rings up customers. She asks about your day, she makes sure to handle…
Janice Badger Nelson RN
Feb 11
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All the Grief You Cannot See
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Death is a Thief
Yesterday, a physician whom I admired a lot, was killed in a tragic car accident, along with his wife. They leave 4 children and a grieving community…
Janice Badger Nelson RN
Feb 4
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Simple Pleasures
Today, a patient I adored died. No, she didn’t die from Covid. She died from cancer. And not a good cancer. A cancer that makes it impossible to eat…
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Jan 7
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