People have asked what this book includes. The most practical way to answer is, to post the contents. I apologize for the fact that all the separated lines and columns are here lumped together. Didn't expect the post to look like this! Hope you will take the time to make sense of the blur of lines. Working with blogs takes arcane skills.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Learning about Vital Signs
CHAPTER 1. OUR LAST FIVE DAYS
At home
The hospital
CHAPTER 2. THE FIRST WEEKS
Immediate care for the survivor
Rituals
Notifying people
CHAPTER 3. AWFUL MONTHS
Lunacy 101: Administration of the estate
Taxes: Here a paper, there a paper,
Multiple personalities of grief
Time line: emotional trampoline
CHAPTER 4. GROWING LEGS
Part 1: IDENTITY: ½ x 0 = 0
Fail-safe rescues
Plans: drift with the tide
No-work food
No-work exercises
Maintenance of the grave
Part 2: SOCIAL LIFE
Parties
Dear Diary
Entertaining at home
Appearance
part 3: THE FUTURE FOR ME
APPENDICES
I End of Life Care:
Interview, Christopher Lucci, MD
"Vital Signs: Basic Functions of Life”
Notes, Pat Mason, LMSW, RN
"Will the Treatment Cure?"
II A Man's View
“Similarities and Differences”
III A Mother's Anguish
"You Need to Get Help"
IV Helen Fitzgerald
Certified Death Educator
“The Emotional Response to Grief”
V A Registered Nurse:
“Sharing, Counsel, and Practical
Information on Hospitals
and Terminal Illness”
VI "How Friends Can Help"
Patricia Luce Chapman
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