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Publisher
et alia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a palliative care and hospice physician, Dr. Bob Lehmberg's experience with mortality was primarily professional. For his wife, Jennifer O'Brien, the early deaths of her brother and mother made her understanding of death and loss personal. Although neither was a stranger to death, when metastatic cancer was found throughout Bob's body, the couple was plunged into the receiving end of palliative care and end-of-life preparations. Even with their...
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In this nonlinear, loosely chronological memoir, Laurie Easter deftly navigates the rugged terrain of living off the grid in rural southern Oregon, along with the many hazards of the human heart. In quiet, searching, and sometimes experimental essays, she bravely explores the liminal spaces between guilt and forgiveness, life and death, grief and love, human society and the natural world. Whether recounting the home birth of her second child, encounters...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a mother's unusual health condition renders her entirely dependent upon you, your sisters, caretakers, and companions, the unimaginable will become daily life. In Mothercare, Lynne Tillman writes an honest and straightforward account of doing the impossible: handling her mother as if she were a child; navigating the unnavigable medical world, and confronting her own emotions regarding a suddenly, forever changed relationship to mother and care....
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