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Old Sep 12, 2006, 08:38 AM
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JustBen…my thoughts and prayers are with you as you work with the dying and the living..and those in-between. My younger sister was in Hospice for almost a month in 2001, before she passed from Breast Cancer at 38, the anniversary is this week. From the time of dx to death it was only 6 months, I don’t know if this rings true for most dysfunctional families, but with ours, it only magnified the dysfunction as ppl started to gather, ex husbands, her young children from those marriages, old issues which had been festering flared up, even over her death bed, it was sooo sooooo very bad, it was like she fought the dying process up to the end to try and stay to continue to be apart of the chaos around her..Dosent make sense..but she did not leave this world knowing that her life had some meaning outside of our stupid dysfunctional toxic family structure…don’t want to even think about it…its not like the movies where you see ppl being all respectful and quiet..at least not in our situation, it was like world war III, family dynamics at its worst, ppl turning on each other..just really crappy stuff..

I hope for you all the strength and courage you need to assist you to help these patients and their families, like I said it’s definitely not like the movies.

Take Care JustBen..

Eva
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