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Engage with Grace

November 23, 2022 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

5 questions about end-of-life choices

Can you and your loved ones answer these questions? 1. On a scale of 1 to 5, where do you fall on this continuum: 1 = Let me die without medical intervention; 5 = Don’t give up on me no matter what, try any proven and unproven intervention possible. 2. If there were a choice, […]

Filed Under: end of life, shared decision making Tagged With: caregivers, Engage with Grace, family

Lessons learned about hospice care

October 19, 2020 By Susannah Fox 36 Comments

Thick trunk reaches up to the sky, sunlight filters through leaves

A loved one recently went over the cancer waterfall and I dove in after him, keeping his head above water long enough to say goodbye to everyone. It was an intense four weeks of caregiving – two in the hospital and two at home, in hospice.  I am sharing one segment of our story to […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, family, hospice, Medicare, peer-to-peer healthcare, Renee Berry

Elegy for A. and M.

August 31, 2020 By Susannah Fox 16 Comments

Elegy for unaccompanied viola, by Benjamin Britten

I grew up rich in cousins. I spent holidays with my first cousins and lived, starting at age 11, in the same town with second cousins (the children of my mother’s first cousin) AND a first cousin twice removed (my grandmother’s first cousin – each generation that separates us is the “removed” part). Don’t worry, […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, end of life, family

Project management for caregivers

March 1, 2020 By Susannah Fox 22 Comments

Cancer worksheet

I am a caregiver. I help coordinate the health and home care for an elder loved one who, for the purposes of maintaining a bit of anonymity, I will call “M.” He is a healthy, happy octogenarian. We have known each other for nearly 40 years, but we are not related by blood. I am […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, shared decision making Tagged With: cancer, caregivers, design, elderly, end of life, family, Older Adults

Public Q&A: Peer support for parents of teens with cancer

February 24, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Peer to peer health advice: your community may really be your superpower

Helen Burstin, MD, reached out to ask if I know of an online peer-to-peer support group for parents of teens with cancer. For anyone who knows Helen: Don’t worry, it’s not for her own family. She is asking on behalf of a friend, who writes: “I’ve been able to find groups for parents of children […]

Filed Under: peer-to-peer health care, public Q&A Tagged With: cancer, caregivers, family, parents, peer-to-peer healthcare, teens

What’s your advice?

November 12, 2019 By Susannah Fox 19 Comments

Arrows connect Give and Take; a bracket shows that Care encompasses both.

My dad was a survivor — of a heart attack in his 50s, kidney cancer in his 60s, and an initial diagnosis of melanoma in his 70s. Melanoma recurrence and complications of treatment are what finally got him. A lifelong runner, Dad kept meticulous notes about his mileage and heart rate on paper. He bought […]

Filed Under: health data, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: cancer, caregivers, family, Tracking for Health

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