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OVdialogue – consider joining our team in the role of Peer Support Volunteer. Over a few hours each week, you would be part of a team that helps connect people, support conversations and are thought leaders for OVdialogue. This is your opportunity to give back to those who have/continue to support you through the tough times, share your unique experiences, and help celebrate successes. For more details of what this entails, please reach out to @Mfallis (mfallis@ovariancanada.org).
Books--Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
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Borrowed from Hospice and here are some quotes that resonated with me:
"Coping with a terminal illness is more than hard work--it's all consuming and creeps into every corner of your life."
"It's like having an unwanted and uninvited stranger in your midst, who seems to take up more and more space."
"The weight of another's denial adds to the patient's burden, often causing a dying person to withdraw from those who are denying, increasing his sense of isolation."
"A dying person's depression grows out of grief. Dying people grieve as anyone does for something that is lost. But their grief has two parts; they're mourning what's lost already to illness--health, family, role, job, independence--but also for what will be lost when they die--personal relationships, life itself and the future."
And a quote at the end of the book:
"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
--Rossiter Worthington Raymond
1840-1918"
"Coping with a terminal illness is more than hard work--it's all consuming and creeps into every corner of your life."
"It's like having an unwanted and uninvited stranger in your midst, who seems to take up more and more space."
"The weight of another's denial adds to the patient's burden, often causing a dying person to withdraw from those who are denying, increasing his sense of isolation."
"A dying person's depression grows out of grief. Dying people grieve as anyone does for something that is lost. But their grief has two parts; they're mourning what's lost already to illness--health, family, role, job, independence--but also for what will be lost when they die--personal relationships, life itself and the future."
And a quote at the end of the book:
"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
--Rossiter Worthington Raymond
1840-1918"
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