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Knowing what End of Life looks like can ease the process; often grief starts long before the end.
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Dialysis and End Stage Kidney (Renal) Disease – ESRD
End of life planning for those with specific chronic conditions: Topic - Kidney Failure "End-of-Life Care planning (aka: Advanced Illness Management) is essential for kidney failure patients." Dr Robert Bear, Nephrologist, Blogger, Tweeter and Author Dr Robert Bear,...
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A mother, a daughter and Ovarian Cancer: “Love you so much.”
When Karen Greve Young gave me the hot-off-the press copy of ‘Love you so much: a shared memoir’ she explained: “Sometime into my mother’s treatment for ovarian cancer, we decided we wanted to do something meaningful.” Told by both daughter and mother, the title of...