Understanding and Managing Grief, May 8 - May 14

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Deneene Florino: Surviving and Thriving After Loss, http://fb.me/X4fYxm12 via @opentohope

• How to deal with an ex-husband’s suicide, http://bit.ly/jN1cBZ via @HealthJourneys

Coping with Pet Loss, May 7 - May 14

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Quality of life and making the euthanasia decision, http://bit.ly/iio0TA by @NEPetHospice

• How to tell when your pet is in pain, http://bit.ly/lWQPA4

• Dedicated to the compassion and care of animals at end of life, http://bit.ly/lpkZGA via @jmedvm @SeptemberMay

• Interview: dealing with guilt in petloss, http://bit.ly/abvJno

Honoring Hospice Nurses: National Nurses Week, May 6 - May 12

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.  ~ Florence Nightingale

Every year, one week is set aside to focus the nation’s attention on the diverse ways America's 3.1 million registered nurses work to save lives and to improve the health of millions of individuals.  National Nurses Week begins on May 6, marked as RN Recognition Day, and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of nursing as a modern profession.

Caregiving and Hospice, May 1 - May 7

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• No One Dies Alone: Interview with Program Coordinator Carleen McCornack, http://bit.ly/iItnTI by @SevenPonds

• Supporting a friend or relative who is dying, http://bit.ly/lTx26m via @myOH_AgingWell 

• Mission of hospice and palliative care is to ease suffering, http://bit.ly/lV66oM by @KathyKastner @kevinmd

• Importance of mental health at end of life, http://nyti.ms/jUoion via @ScottIrwinMD @palliativecare

• Better Way to Find Home Home Care Aides, http://ow.ly/4NNAR via @nytimes @LittmanKrooks

Coping with Pet Loss, May 1 - May 7

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• "If I become terminally ill, please call my Veterinarian!" http://tinyurl.com/2b9raez by @MeredithGould via @hospice4animals 

• Why is it so hard when a pet dies? http://is.gd/2xIE7 by @jmedvm

• The very definition of presence, http://twitvid.com/BUVJ7 @hospice4animals

• Cremation service gives animal lovers some peace, http://bit.ly/iq7TFP via @MATWCremation 

• Helping children through petloss, http://wp.me/p1kwLo-fL via @GreenRanchMom @drlisanelson

Understanding and Managing Grief, May 1 - May 7

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Embracing the pain & the joy of Mother's Day http://bit.ly/jCVMMy via @Infertilitypsyc

• Yes, another Mother's Day, http://fb.me/XDatyyuw via @opentohope

• Grief resources at Grief Healing, http://nblo.gs/hzQxu via @St_Patricks

• Seven Ways Grief Has Changed Me, http://bit.ly/msKzaE by @FindMyNewNormal via @HelloGrief

• Proposed Updates To DSM V Now Available For Public Comment, http://bit.ly/mAzO6T via @ScottIrwinMD

A Mother's Day Tribute

[Reviewed and updated May 1, 2022]

Your mother will never leave you.  She persists like an echo after the source has gone.  ~ Unknown

The following was written for Good Housekeeping Magazine by Temple Bailey in 1933.  In the days leading up to Mother's Day this year, I offer it here as a special tribute to my own mother, and to yours:

The young mother set her foot on the path of life.

"Is this the long way?" she asked.

And the Guide said, "Yes, and the way is hard.  And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning."

Caregiving and Hospice, April 24 - April 30

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• In the End: 10 Things Not to Do During a Loved One's Last Hours, http://huff.to/kl5DNV

• Family caregiving resource library: 1009 most useful resources in one place, http://ow.ly/4Jp3L via @CaregiverTweets

• Helpful! Family Caregiver's Network videos, http://bit.ly/kVVWbv via @SanDiegoHospice @jennjilks

• Check out Caregiving section of National Resource Center on LGBT Aging site, launched on March 30, http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org via @ASAging

• Hospice CEO defends BBC program; calls for open, honest debate on death and dying, http://bit.ly/it0RNB via @hospicepharmacy

Understanding and Managing Grief, April 24 - April 30

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Empty Nest: Coping with a different type of loss, http://bit.ly/l0fvTz

• Music for a grieving heart. A nice list of grief songs, http://bit.ly/11rtcf

• What Is Complicated Grief? http://bit.ly/hYoB03

• Understanding Different Grief Patterns in Your Family, http://bit.ly/2oGvI

• Widow's Voice: When good things happen to sad people http://bit.ly/gU8gSS

Coping with Pet Loss, April 24 - April 30

Best selection from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Five Tips to Help You with the Pet Cremation Process, http://tiny.ly/qGHh by @PawsWhiskersWag