About her career as a Hospice Nurse and her book,Margaret Dodson says:I have been honored to share in the living, dying, and deaths of the most extraordinary “ordinary” people. I have entered into lives months away fromtheir dying and moments awayMoreAbout her career as a Hospice Nurse and her book,Margaret Dodson says:I have been honored to share in the living, dying, and deaths of the most extraordinary “ordinary” people. I have entered into lives months away fromtheir dying and moments away from their dying.
Each person I have met in this work has been etched into my heart- how could I help but betouched by them?I realized that I needed to go away for a few days with a list of the people and families I had cared for during the year, and I needed time to spend my “last visit” with them privately to say goodbye.As I sat looking at the sea and feeling so full of these stories, they began to pour from me onto these pages. I would look at a name and I wastransported not only to that person but also to that family, their home, the conversations, the intimacies, the suffering, the peace and eventhe joy.It would be presumptuous to say I have become wise by these experiences, but my gratitude for this enrichment is boundless.
Much of the time I do not feel wise- yet, as the years have passed and the stories accumulate, I do feel as though I have acquired lessons to share.The lessons Margaret has learned are this book.