Harvesting the Journey: Embrace, Empower, Endure

Embrace: to accept

As a pediatric palliative care nurse practitioner, I journey with patients and their families through the toughest of diagnoses, including disease-related pain and symptoms. I sit with them as they receive good and bad news, including conversations leading up to the last breath. As I reflect on the work I do, the word embrace takes on a much different meaning.

One of the favorite stories my husband Andy and I loved to share, was how we met. …

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