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Circling the Drain
ebook $3.99
Paperbook $9.95
For testimonials about readers of this book please go to Testimonials above.
Paperbook $9.95
For testimonials about readers of this book please go to Testimonials above.
Pain Smarts
eBook:$3.99
Paperback: $5.99
24-page booklet that discusses strategies for symptom management utilizing the children's song, "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly." Appropriate for health care professionals as well as non-medical people. Individual copies $6 including postage. Multiple copy discount available upon request. Click on "Contact" above for further information.
Testimonials
You sent Pain Smarts to me asking me to read it. I LOVED IT! WOW! What a great booklet! Your presentation is simple, easy to read and oh so informative. I sat and read it straight through, cover to cover enchanted by your style, the gentle flow of your words and ideas. You have a teaching gift. I certainly hope you reach the nursing staff of not only hospices but nursing facilities, hospital palliative care units and home health agencies. Good luck to you and blessings to what you are doing.
Barbara Karnes, Author, Gone From My Sight
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Pain Smarts is a smart book. Lenora Trussell begins with an old folk song, “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly,” and using that frame, describes conditions common to dying (and to living) which can be addressed by medication and a human presence. She is creative, she is compassionate, she has a light touch and a sense of humor. Above all, she has great wisdom about being with the dying and their families.
I learned some things about medications, but as a college professor and poet, what most impressed me was how much Lenora knows about accompanying the dying. I hope she will be there when I go. Death didn’t seem as scary as I read through the little chapters, and I guess that is the point after all. Not which meds to offer, though that is here, but offering oneself as companion, listening, tending, always following the patient’s lead.
It is a delightful book, and a reassuring one, one for nurses and for the rest of us as well.
Dr. Mary Clare Powell, PhD
Professor, Creative Arts in Learning
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Mary Clare is author of several books--The Widow, This Way Daybreak Comes: Women’s Values and the Future, and co-editor of The Arts, Education and Social Change. She has produced three books of poetry--Things Owls Ate, Academic Scat, andIn the Living Room.