Self Image and the Ostomate
Toward the end of the summer, I received a message from an Ostomy nurse, inviting me to do something very special. Sharon Brady was bringing together with Anita Grove, an Oncology Social Worker at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in York, Pennsylvania, three ostomy support groups to celebrate the holiday season together, and I […]
Opening a weekly newspaper I receive, my heart sunk. A man I knew and admired for much of my life, albeit peripherally, died and a full-page farewell was printed exclaiming the loss. He was truly and absolutely loved and adored. Although I knew Michael Oksenhorn was sick, I had not heard he died, and sadness […]
I suppose one could say I have a mission. My mission feels very important, almost like a crusade, one which we are all in need of supporting. We must open our hearts to each other and do it soon. Our future seems to depend upon it. Everywhere we turn, there is negativity, a sense that […]