This is my 15th Christmas article. For fear of being a total bore I went back over the articles since 2001 and read over them, hoping that I hadn’t been boorishly repetitive – thankfully, I wasn’t.
This past year has been in one way a most horrifying one. The daily news outlets regale us with stories of the atrocities that people commit against one another.
Finding contentment when things are not as they should be is one of the most difficult tasks that we face. In my work I meet people when things are not what they should be or at least not as they want them to be.
Military service is a touchy subject, especially in this area where many were conscientious objectors and many served as members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
It is 6:15 on a Tuesday evening and in 45 minutes I will be leading a group of people as they remember a young woman who passed away as a result of cancer.
As a school boy, Thanksgiving was all about Pilgrims and Indians and the beautiful cooperation that enabled the Pilgrims to make it through the first winter of their stay in the New World.
Appearances are often deceiving; sometimes by intent, many other times they just are. A few months ago I sat at the bedside of a gentleman that had cancer.
How did you spend your summer? Working, sure – weekends at the cottage, a family vacation, a family reunion, summer is the season we wait for all year long then it is gone in a flash.
A reality I encounter every day in my work is uncertainty. One of the first questions I often ask as I spend time with patients in the hospital is, “What brings you to the hospital?”
Our new government has promised to build more PCHs. Anyone who has been involved in any major building project knows that building a personal care home takes time.
