Cunningham-Ramos AML & Stroke after TBI Journey

In preparation for Kim being home next week, I’ve gotten our first-level family room set up for comfortably accommodating a hospital bed, a wheel chair, and many items he would need. I’ve been researching and purchasing a few items. However, upon talking to the Hospice of the Chesapeake intake person, I’ve learned that they provide a lot of these items, including diapers and wipes! So far, I’ve been very impressed by the services and the attentiveness that hospice provide.

I’m very grateful to those who started hospice ( mainly compassionate, caring women), an important service at a very difficult time for most families.

The concept of providing specialized care for dying patients, linking pain and symptom control with compassionate care, began in England when a physician named Dame Cicely Saunders created the first hospice there in 1967. Invited by the dean of Yale University School of nursing, Florence Wald, to give a lecture about hospice in 1963, the concept of hospice soon took root in the US. A brief history of Hospice can be found at https://www.nhpco.org/hospice-care-overview/history-of-hospice/