Life As We Knew It

Life As We Knew It

Life as we know it has changed. Life isn’t the same. Our normal changed overnight. We are in uncharted waters. We’ve been thrown into the unknown and it wasn’t our choice. Normal is gone and just as we thought we might be getting through the worst of it, our social...
A Voice for Healthcare

A Voice for Healthcare

This past week I spent an enormous amount of time thinking about and praying for my healthcare friends. My heart aches for them. Healthcare has drastically changed overnight and what my friends have to face every day is heavy.  As I read their post on social media, I...
A Small Touch of Hope

A Small Touch of Hope

Today my son may play his very last baseball game of his career and all I can think is “this wasn’t how it was supposed to end.” I’m heart broken. I’m sad. I’m angry. And really it just isn’t about the baseball either, it’s the events that have played out this week....
The Caregiver – The Unsung Hero

The Caregiver – The Unsung Hero

In healthcare we tend to mostly pay attention to the patient. Family, care providers, friends, pretty much everyone, focuses on the patient, and rightfully so. We check on the patient to see how they are doing. We ask if they need anything and what we can do to make...
My Box of Pain

My Box of Pain

When Jack died, I did not think I would ever stop hurting. I vividly remember the day he was born, the mixture of joy and pain we felt. No one could have prepared Jeff and I for what we were going to experience that day. We welcomed our son into the world then twenty...