Now the patient himself was staring at me, and all I could think about were the moments he would miss: holding his wife as they both drifted off to sleep, laughing with his kids at the first snowfall, raising a glass of champagne to toast his retirement, the birth of his first grandchild, a holiday dinner surrounded by family and friends. Right then, in this moment, I could not tell him the unvarnished truth – that he was likely going to die.
- Amanda Redig, from The Measure of Time
I’ve posted a new “chapter” on my page, A Terminal Illness Primer for Caregivers.