From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying Kindle Edition Epub Free

From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Nina Angela McKissock Page ID: B00ZTRSM2M

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File Size: 2614 KBPrint Length: 194 pagesPublisher: She Writes Press (August 4, 2015)Publication Date: August 4, 2015 Sold by:  Digital Services, Inc. Language: EnglishID: B00ZTRSM2MText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #167,266 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Medical eBooks > Nursing > Nursing Home Care #45 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Nursing Home Care #2172 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Memoirs
“From Sun to Sun” is a slim volume, only 250 pages, but feels larger, as if it expands to fill an enormous intellectual and emotional space.
Author Nina McKissock has been a nurse for 39 years and involved with hospice care for 15 years. She has been “around the block,” as it were, and, as such, a reader opens “Sun,” with some trepidation and more than a couple of questions.
The 24-chapter book is about death and dying, the most persistent and profound puzzlement faced by human beings. Apart from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and her 1969 “On Death and Dying” (and its 1975 sequel “Death: The Final Stage of Growth”), the subject has never formed an overwhelmingly popular genre, although the literature has been largely thoughtful and compelling. The problem, in a word, is that the subject is scary.
The nascent reader – especially if unfamiliar with hospice care – will wonder if this will be gruesome or frightening or, conversely, awe-inspiring and revelatory. What, goes the apprehension, has McKissock seen? What insights will she offer into this greatest mystery?
First: full disclosure. I am part of this book, although not by name — and for one small paragraph only. McKissock refers to her care for my dying father toward the end of chapter seven’s “Clarentine.” The nurse helped my brother and me, in 2006, confront a resistant stepmother as our father was dying of leukemia in his home.
McKissock smoothed my father’s path, dealing with his deepest personal issues: religious belief, love, family, the future of those he left behind and, most certainly, the hope, faith and fear he faced.
The disclosure is important for two reasons: McKissock beautifully eased the transition for our entire family, lending gentility, humor, honesty and grace to the process.
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