by An-Magriet McKerrell | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorised
I asked my good old (well, actually not so old) friend, ChatGPT, what the most common questions are about respite care. It cleverly spat out the ten that I list below in seconds. And so, keeping this blog short and sweet as, I know everyone is hooking up trailers,...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorised
Over the past few weeks, I have had it on my heart to chat to people about timing. On almost a daily basis I hear loved ones of our patients ask: “Why did we not come sooner?” I feel more and more strongly that it’s time to educate people about palliative...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Mar 12, 2024 | Uncategorised
Yesterday I finally received a much-anticipated book. It has the wonderful title, Have a beautiful terrible day, by Kate Bowler. Our lives here at both the Hospitality lodges are indeed beautiful and brutal every day, but the joy always outweighs the awful. I...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Mar 5, 2024 | Uncategorised
It is safe to say that I know a good funeral when I go to one. I have been to some memorials in club houses that were better than most of my family’s weddings. I’ve fallen asleep in a Greek Orthodox funeral after the priest kept singing strangely haunting songs. I...
by An-Magriet McKerrell | Feb 26, 2024 | Uncategorised
On Tuesday morning I kept watching the little pathway leading up to the dining room. I knew that at any moment, Mr and Mrs Desai would be walking towards me, ready to have breakfast. Mr and Mrs Desai started coming to us in 1999 when they brought the, now-late, Mr and...
