by An-Magriet McKerrell | Oct 1, 2024 | Uncategorised
I often feel like I’m an extra in someone else’s movie. I’m that person who stands in the background and watches the main actors go through the heartaches, twists and turns, surprises and joys as the plot unfolds. Over the past two months, we’ve been part of a...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Sep 23, 2024 | Uncategorised
This week’s blog started writing itself on Monday while I sat in a Methodist church listening to a eulogy. It was delivered by the daughter of Althea Preiss. You might know her as Daphne, as for the past 28 months, I often wrote about her using a pseudonym. Not only...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Sep 17, 2024 | Uncategorised
I always say, our day here is not complete if we did not cry and laugh at least once. But there’s something else we seem to do on the daily… talk about guilt. It is an emotion almost all of our patients and their loved ones share in some form or another. It...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorised
In our profession, we have the absolute privilege – as well as the terrible curse – of being witness to so many goodbyes. People think we get used to it, but the truth is, we really don’t, and I think, as soon as we do, if we lose the awe of entering into...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorised
Humans are funny things, or maybe it is just this generation, but it seems to me that we are totally outcomes-based. We tend to focus entirely on the final results without considering the process. I see it all the time in my line of work, particularly with people who...
