Everytime I think of this incident I have to smile. My friend's mother had dementia and had been hospitalized for refusing to eat. The doctor came into the room together with a nurse to insert an intravenous line into her arm, and then the fight began: e

    
 
    
Dramas were unfolding all around me as I kept my vigil at my father's hospital bedside. One of his co-patients, Jack, suffered from severe breathing problems which was kept under control only by having air forced into his lungs by a very noisy machine. His

    
 
    
My mother is 94 now, but she was 'only' 92 at the time of this extremely funny moment. She was married into a family that had so many go to the same university that it is ridiculous. My father, 2 of his brothers, 1 of her brothers, both of my brothers, me

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This story took place in France a few years ago.

My husband's Mom, may she rest in peace, was very ill. She was in the last stages of Ovarian Cancer, but was still home. The day she passed away, her family physician stopped by to check on her. It was his

    
 
    
I asked my friend why her son was wearing a ski hat when he arrived home one warm spring day. She told me he only wore the hat outside to protect his scalp from the sun. He and several fellow students had each shaved their heads so a classmate who was underg