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- 2018
- in Death
- Barbara Karnes
Gone from My Sight
The Dying Experience
Author: Barbara Karnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Death
Page: 13
View: 416
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"The biggest fear of watching someone die is fear of the unknown; not knowing what dying will be like or when death will actually occur. The booklet 'Gone From My Sight' explains in a simple, gentle yet direct manner the process of dying from disease"--Publisher description.
- 2008-01-01
- in Death
- Barbara Karnes
The Eleventh Hour
A Caring Guideline for the Hours to Minutes Before Death
Author: Barbara Karnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Death
Page: 27
View: 851
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- 2016-09
- in Death
- Barbara Karnes
How Do I Know You?
Dementia at the End of Life
Author: Barbara Karnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Death
Page: 21
View: 102
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Caring for someone with dementia presents different challenges than caring for others with health care issues.People with dementia don't "play by the rules" that signify approaching death from disease or old age. This booklet outlines the issues and progress that a person with dementia will probably follow.The aim of this booklet is to provide information regarding approaching end of life to those people, family and significant others, who are making decisions for and caring for someone with dementia. It would be given to the family upon admission to the Palliative Care program or to any family that is having to address the eating and not eating dilemma.Like it's companions, Gone From My Sight and The Eleventh Hour, How Do I Know You? is short, written in large print, and the information is conveyed in a simple, direct yet gentle manner.
- 2012-02-14
- in Self-Help
- Maggie Callanan
Final Gifts
Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Co
Author: Maggie Callanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category: Self-Help
Page: 222
View: 323
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In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
- 1911
- in Literary Criticism
- Henry Van Dyke
The Poems of Henry Van Dyke
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 488
View: 118
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- 2017-03-14
- in Business & Economics
- Isaac Lidsky
Eyes Wide Open
Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly
Author: Isaac Lidsky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN:
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 322
View: 394
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In this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn’t external circ*mstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality. Fear has a tendency to give us tunnel vision—we fill the unknown with our worst imaginings and cling to what’s familiar. But when confronted with new challenges, we need to think more broadly and adapt. When Isaac Lidsky learned that he was beginning to go blind at age thirteen, eventually losing his sight entirely by the time he was twenty-five, he initially thought that blindness would mean an end to his early success and his hopes for the future. Paradoxically, losing his sight gave him the vision to take responsibility for his reality and thrive. Lidsky graduated from Harvard College at age nineteen, served as a Supreme Court law clerk, fathered four children, and turned a failing construction subcontractor into a highly profitable business. Whether we’re blind or not, our vision is limited by our past experiences, biases, and emotions. Lidsky shows us how we can overcome paralyzing fears, avoid falling prey to our own assumptions and faulty leaps of logic, silence our inner critic, harness our strength, and live with open hearts and minds. In sharing his hard-won insights, Lidsky shows us how we too can confront life's trials with initiative, humor, and grace.
- 2006-10-03
- in Fiction
- Peter Watts
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 388
View: 123
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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- 2019-07
- in
- Barbara Karnes
Pain at End of Life
What You Need to Know about End of Life Pain Management
Author: Barbara Karnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 16
View: 258
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There is much fear and misconception surrounding pain management at end of life.This booklet is intended for families/significant others in the weeks to days before death, for education of hospital and nursing facility staff, as well as anyone interested in, or dealing with, narcotics and pain management as end of life approaches."Pain at End of Life" addresses, win a fifth grade, non medical terminology: pain as it relates to the dying process, fear of overdosing, and addiction, standard dosages, around the clock administration, laxatives, uses of morphine, sedation as it relates to dying, supplemental therapies.Use "Pain at End of Life" to ease the confusion and apprehension surrounding narcotic administration.
- 2018-03-13
- in Fiction
- Alice Feeney
Sometimes I Lie
A Novel
Author: Alice Feeney
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 288
View: 458
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My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
- 2003-11-06
- in Death
What Is Dying?
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Death
Page: 32
View: 267
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The beauty of the words and the striking simplicity of its sentiment has made this one of the most inspired messages of comfort and hope for those who have suffered loss. This is the first publication as a book for a poem that has been recited at memorial services for over a century.What is Dying? is a moving meditation on death, with a reassuring power that speaks directly to those who have been recently bereaved, and millions of people have been comforted by its serenity and acceptance.The poem speaks movingly and directly with the voice of faith that sustains us during a time of grief. Ben Ecclestone's sensitive illustrations perfectly complement the words of Bishop Brent's poem.