“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In my previous post “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine: Song about Ordinary Happiness” I wrote about dying persons whose lives were well lived. Unfortunately, not everyone lives a fulfilled life. Even so, every dying person has something to teach the living.
One day a nurse informed me of a new patient who declared at the time of hospice admission that she refused to be taken care of by anyone other than white staff. The patient whom we call Ruth was a white woman in her 9o’s, a successful business woman who was wealthy and highly educated. It seemed that Ruth had done quit well for herself, especially for a woman of her generation, yet she was a very angry person.
Many of our hospice aides were African Americans, so Ruth refused…
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