Palliative Care

What Would You Do If You Were In Her Shoes?

What Would You Do If You Were In Her Shoes? Shahina Lakhani Picture this, A nurse goes to an integrative medicine doctor for chronic fatigue, body pains especially eyes and face and failing eye sight. The doctor runs a battery of tests, way more than a regular doctor would to find out what is wrong. [...]

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Wellbeing: What Cancer Patients Teach Us About Life

Wellbeing: What Cancer Patients Teach Us About Life Shahina Lakhani Today's article explores how we can improve the quality of our lives and experience wellbeing. We begin this discussion by first  looking at a research study done on people with cancer. We then discuss how some of the concepts in this article apply to our [...]

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Palliative Care Brings Us Back To The Basics Of Care

Palliative Care Brings Us Back To The Basics Of Care Shahina Lakhani Who is at the center of healthcare? What does it mean to be at the center healthcare? Should the person with medical knowledge be the one who dictates care and  the recipients have to follow what is planned without too many questions? It [...]

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The Effect of Proactively Providing Compassionate Holistic Care In Hospice And Palliative Care

The Effect of  Proactively Providing Compassionate Holistic Care In Hospice And Palliative Care Shahina Lakhani Today, I am sharing the story of a mother and daughter I took care of. Both of them were suffering but fighting their fight alone and scared. This is a story about how compassionate, focused and proactive holistic care helped [...]

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The Topic Tonight Is Love

The Topic Tonight Is Love By: Shahina Lakhani Today we are going to explore the question, "if the holistic model of care helps sick and the dying experience wellbeing, then why do we have to wait until we are at the end of our lives to see its power work for us?" Last night I [...]

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The Old Grouch

  The Old Grouch Poem By Shahina Lakhani Once I was a priest   Now I am an old grouch   Lying in my hospital bed   No, I don't have dementia   My mind is pretty clear   But my body has slowed down   I can't function like I once could   But [...]

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Open Your Heart

  Open Your Heart Poem By Shahina Lakhani They Say I am like a cat with nine lives   A mother of eleven a ward of state   You see, I haven't always done the right thing   We fought, we cursed we pushed each other away   Although I am ninety years old   [...]

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Talk To Me!

Talk To Me Poem By Shahina Lakhani Ooooh.. My head hurts!   The morphine drip in my arm   Makes my eyes glaze over   They say it helps the pain   May be they are right   But my inner havoc remains   I am terrified, I am scared!   My family is hardly [...]

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Tell Me I have Lived A Good Life

  Tell Me I have Lived A Good Life! By Shahina Lakhani A few days ago, just out of the blue the last scene from"Saving Private Ryan"  popped up in my head. I saw this movie several years ago so this sudden pop up was interesting to me. So naturally, I looked up that last [...]

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If Only

If Only     By Shahina Lakhani       I lay here in my hospital bed brain dead for months now   My spirit hangs in despair between the veil of life and death   Death is what I endure here everyday   Life is what awaits me once I am allowed to be [...]

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