Caring Vicariously

I hope your grandmother has the kind of nurse caring for you that you provide for your cancer patients.

I feel your pain in not being able to be there for your Grandmother. My mother passed without the family there. However, I do commend you and thank you the wonderful care you give your patients. That is how I treat y patients, however, I a not in oncology. You need to be a special person to be able to handle that!!! God Bless you!!!

I am totally feeling your pain about not being able to be there for your grandmother. I too have a sick grandmother who has steadily been declining and I don't think she'll make it past the year 2014. She is in India. I can't go because I don't have enough PTO and I just had a change in job status. My mother is now moving back to India from the US for the long term, and I so wish I could go. The best way I can help is by advising my mother about nursing care, so she can pass those recommendations on to the nurses caring for my grandmother. It's been revealing, this whole thing. Lot of basic nursing knowledge that I take for granted here, the nurses over there don't know. Like repositioning a bed bound patient so that they don't develop pressure ulcers. I'm also buying some basic nursing care supplies to send over with my mother, stuff that is not readily available in India.

Aww that brought tears to my eyes! Well said!And I will keep your grandmother in my prayers-- and her nurses.

So beautiful. You are a kind and loving person. It takes a special person to be a nurse. Know that you make a difference in all that you do.

I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for the reminder to keep the Golden Rule going. It's so easy to forget such an important principle.

Thank you all for your kind words. My grandmother died yesterday. She is square-dancing in heaven with my grandfather.

This made me cry. Thanks for sharing this story. And I am pretty sure they're both dancing now.

Quote from curlygirlie3Thank you all for your kind words. My grandmother died yesterday. She is square-dancing in heaven with my grandfather.

I am so sorry for your lossI lost my grandpa to complications from COPD in January and being a CNA made it hard for me to sit there with him just knowing what was physically happening to him.The nursing staff were wonderful and it made his passing easier. I agree that nursing is a calling.It takes a special person for the job.I try to treat each one of my patients as Id expect another CNA/Nurse to treat my grandparents.