As a college student, I remember a conversation with an acquaintance of mine who was known to be a very intelligent, A+ kind of student. We talked about school, and I joked with him, saying he must really like to study, seeing as he was so academically accomplished. He looked at me, surprised, and shook …
As a fledgling nursing student, one of the purchases I made that I was really excited about was a manual blood pressure cuff (aka Sphygmomanometer, in case you want to sound smart and incredibly pretentious in conversation!). To my shame… I may have swaggered a bit when I brought it to church with me to …
A few months ago, my oldest son (I’ll call him L), who’s a little over 3 years old, said something to me that has been needling its way into my consciousness: “Dad is strong to hug and stand with me and E (my youngest son)” In case that’s hard to understand, it means that my …
Here’s a pretty common scenario that came up while I worked in the hospital. An elderly patient in her late 70’s, let’s say her name is Shelby, comes into the hospital with a fever, lower abdominal pain, and confusion. One of her kids, Denise, found her on the floor of her living room at home …
I’ve been meaning to be more regimented and organized about what I write about and why and when I publish, but it seems life is chaos and discipline is hard when the day to day schedule requires an intense amount of intentionality in order for me to set aside time. I had also meant to …
My husband surprised me one night when he told me that our bereavement ministry pastor was looking for someone to help teach one of the weeks at our church’s grief workshop. It took me a little off guard for a few reasons. The first is that even though we had technically been at this church …
During Nursing school, we had one semester and clinical rotation in mental health (more familiarly known as \”Psych.\”). I was assigned an in-patient mental health facility in downtown Chicago, where we spent a couple days a week talking to patients and nurses, and figuring out the floor. This was honestly the rotation where I was …
Although I\’ve been wanting this blog space to be one where I could plan, teach, and share the things I have learned or want to learn as I try to delve more deeply into the realm of stewardship of faith and health, I find myself despairing of actually being able to do it consistently. I …
Matthew 25:14-30 (NLT) \”Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone…\” I ache all over. All the time. I try to avoid bending to pick up stuff from the …