TheBanyanTree: Today's Hospice Story

[Anita Coia]

Lovely story Monique. Generous people like you must make such a difference
to the life of someone who is suffering.

Anita
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:35:54 -0700
From: Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>
To: Banyan Tree <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
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Also found on my various blogs

      ?Bedpan,? she croaks out, barely intelligibly, and her right hand, the
only one that still works, flutters on the covering sheet before grasping
and pushing it down.

                ?I?m sorry,? I tell her, ?But I can?t, they told me not to.?
Besides that, I think but don?t say, I?m spectacularly unqualified to lift
you, and if I move you I?m likely to hurt you, I?m an accountant, and we
don?t know how to do these things. Got any numbers you?d like me to add up?

                But she?s insistent. ?Go potty,? she says, again, and so I
make a half-hearted stab at it, which is what I do when people want things,
getting the bedpan, rolling her slightly, but I see she is heavily diapered
and double diapered, so there?s no chance.