Medical Terminology
Every health condition comes with its own language, medical terminology and decision options. End of Life is no different. While CPR and DNR may be familiar to many, that doesn’t mean they are understood as intended.
New ‘terms’ such as Allow Natural Death or AND and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking or VSED have been created to add to options to consider. Understanding the words and terms used is one thing. Being able to act on them is another.
Organ and Tissue Donation: a learning experience
Donna Renzetti (left, standing) Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer at West Park Healthcare Centre came in on a Saturday to make sure there were plenty of chairs at the ready for the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) presentation on organ...
Gaps in End of Life information: a layman’s point of view
With Mary Ito, host of FreshAir: celebrating after our interview on CBC Radio about what this 'layman' brings to conversations about end of life Click to listen: 11 minutes
Obituaries and those who write them
I'm noticing new approaches to obituaries Defying a history of somber and factual, I'm seeing welcomed injections of humour - including obits written by the deceased. Before, of course. This means leaving blanks as you can see from above picture. Walter George Bruhl...
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...
