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The Healing Presence of a Doctor

It’s unwise to make generalisations about any professional group of workers, or anyone for that matter. Take doctors for example. A recent meeting with an out of hours GP with over forty years of experience ...

Staying Steady and Not Taking Things Personally

I worked as a carer with an elderly 92 year old gentleman who had dementia. He was still mobile but very slow and he needed help with bathing and dressing. Because of the dementia he ...

It Was With Great Joy That I Worked as a Carer.

A move from London to the countryside meant that I needed to find work locally. The quickest job that I could find was with a local care company. After a few days training I was ...

Can You Truly Take Good Care of Another, if You don’t First Care for Yourself?

Over the past 18 years, I have observed colleagues that were exhausted, struggled with being overweight, and were ill with all kinds of ailments. They were often careless and made mistakes at work. Central Bureau ...

Opening Up to Receiving Help  

I was at the supermarket, enjoying the chance to look around and feel into what foods I wanted to buy and appreciating what I had in my trolley. At the checkout, I was asked to ...

Nothing Is As It Seems

During one of my agency nursing periods, I was sent to a rest home in a town I knew well. During the medication round in which I was giving medication to a lot of people ...

It Takes a Village: a Cancer Diagnosis and its Implication on the People Around Me

When you receive a diagnosis of cancer, it is not only you that receives it. There is a whole circle of people that are equally affected by the news. This was not something I realised ...

Saying Yes to Receiving Care

I recently became a client of a mental health service. The service is part of a charity that works with people ‘to end homelessness and tackle disadvantage’. Am I homeless, you may ask? Am I ...

Dignity – Nature’s Way

This morning, a beautiful bouquet of flowers on the breakfast table began to fade, flower petals dropped, leaves turned yellow and wilted. Did I love them any less? No. Did I weep at their passing? ...
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