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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/u...-herself-the-lesson.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. It was early November when Martha Keochareon called the nursing school at Holyoke Community College, her alma mater. She had a proposal, which she laid out in a voice mail message.
I have cancer, she said after introducing herself, and Im wondering if youll need somebody to do a case study on, a hospice patient.
Perhaps some nursing students just want to feel what a tumor feels like, she went on. Or they could learn something about hospice care, which aims to help terminally ill people die comfortably at home.
Maybe youll have some ambitious student that wants to do a project, Ms. Keochareon (pronounced CATCH-uron) said after leaving her phone number. Thank you. Bye. ...............
At the funeral, Ms. Keochareons sister Ruth Woodard spoke in her eulogy about just what prompted Martha to offer her situation up as a teaching tool. Ms. Keochareon deeply wanted nurses to understand her illness from the patients perspective, she said. But that was not all.
I notice that every time that Martha gave of herself she received far more, Ms. Woodard said. In fact, she received a few moments of less pain and I suspect that she received life itself a few more hours, even days, with purpose................
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. It was early November when Martha Keochareon called the nursing school at Holyoke Community College, her alma mater. She had a proposal, which she laid out in a voice mail message.
I have cancer, she said after introducing herself, and Im wondering if youll need somebody to do a case study on, a hospice patient.
Perhaps some nursing students just want to feel what a tumor feels like, she went on. Or they could learn something about hospice care, which aims to help terminally ill people die comfortably at home.
Maybe youll have some ambitious student that wants to do a project, Ms. Keochareon (pronounced CATCH-uron) said after leaving her phone number. Thank you. Bye. ...............
At the funeral, Ms. Keochareons sister Ruth Woodard spoke in her eulogy about just what prompted Martha to offer her situation up as a teaching tool. Ms. Keochareon deeply wanted nurses to understand her illness from the patients perspective, she said. But that was not all.
I notice that every time that Martha gave of herself she received far more, Ms. Woodard said. In fact, she received a few moments of less pain and I suspect that she received life itself a few more hours, even days, with purpose................
