Tag Archives: Angel

Two days with the Angels

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Angelnurse0513

It is 4:44am and I wonder why I am awake, it is the time of Angels.  The Angel number sequence 444 means you have nothing to fear for Angels are all about. And so I write of my most recent … Continue reading →

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Trusting the Divine

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Angelnurse0513

Trusting the Divine Yesterday I witnessed a 31 year old mother of two young children struggle to remain here on this earth.  The cancer that has ravaged her body for the past 11 years is finally winning the battle.  I … Continue reading →

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Angels in the Silence

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Angelnurse0513

Often I stand on the edge of other’s grief, I watch as they navigate a very personal journey. Sometimes I have words of comfort but more often I have nothing. At first when this happened it frightened me, being a … Continue reading →

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Angels and Roses

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Angelnurse0513

Knowing someone is dying can be a burden to our heart. There is something called anticipatory grieving- meaning your grief begins just with the idea of losing your loved one. When someone is put on hospice I always tell the … Continue reading →

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Angelic Owls

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Angelnurse0513

Yesterday as I drove to work I saw a huge beige speckled owl sitting on a tree branch. It was midmorning and I was surprised to see the owl calmly looking over the comings and goings of the hospital.  I … Continue reading →

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Conversations with the Otherside

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Angelnurse0513

Yesterday I saw something…no, I witnessed something,  because what was truly happening I could not see. A co-worker and I went to peek in on a potential hospice patient. We had reviewed her chart and she seemed “appropriate” but the … Continue reading →

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Asking the Angels

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Angelnurse0513

I have always disliked certain clichés; they seem to me to reduce the human experience. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is my least favorite, because honestly aren’t I strong enough God? Apparently not. My spiritual muscles were flexed … Continue reading →

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Hope in a Lavender Sky

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Angelnurse0513

Epilepsy reared its ugly head in a way I would never have imagined changing my son’s world and mine as well. Navigating this unknown world trying to return to a place of healing has been his mission for the past … Continue reading →

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Entertaining Angels

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Angelnurse0513

Once again we find ourselves in the hospital ultimately due to my son’s epilepsy. There is a vortex that swallows you whole once you get there- time has no meaning and each moment blends into the next one. The doctors … Continue reading →

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Bed bath and Beyond

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Angelnurse0513

Bed bath and Beyond. This pretty much sums up my work as a hospice nurse.  There is the physical world-bed bath- I tend to and then there’s the spiritual world-beyond- that I minister to. My “job” is to manage symptoms … Continue reading →

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