We always recommend having a bag ready to go to hospital. This could contain contents for when you go have your chemotherapy sessions, or you might need to be ready quickly to go in for a blood transfusion like Richard had to today as his platelets dropped to 9… when they should be between 150-400.
So print off our Chemo Care Bag Checklist to ensure you have what you need to give you as much comfort as possible.
It is Dying Matters week, and the invitation this year is Let's talk about Death and Dying. I want to do just that. I want to take the invitation seriously, and I want to widen it a little, because there are deaths we are living through that have no obituaries, and...
A River In Each Hand - Richard Tyler This poem was written for #DyingMatters week You learn early not to let it show. There is a face for the corridor, a voice that stays level even when the room has just emptied of someone who will not return. You were...
No Flowers - Richard Tyler This poem was written for #DyingMatters week There is a grief no one brings flowers for. The grief of still being here, in a body that no longer answers to its old name. You were not taken. You were translated into a language...
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