- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 2 Raymond Hynes: When the Storm of a Lifetime Hits in Mid-Dance
- 3 Albert Hoffer: Bonds Through Thick and Thin
- 4 Klara Bergman: Burdens from the Past
- 5 Frances Legendre: The Price of a Death of One's Own
- 6 Shamira Cook: “Who Am I?”
- 7 Rose Picard: “I'm Allowed to Be Happy Even Though I'm Dying”
- 8 Victor Sloski: “I Want to Die at Home”
- 9 Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges
- 10 Miriam Lambert: Total Pain and the Despair of an Unlived Life
- 11 Sadie Fineman: A Question of Denial?
- 12 Stanley Gray: “Like Lazarus, He Came Back from the Dead”
- 13 Martin Roy: Trying to Live and Die Well
- 14 Richard Johnson: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
- 15 Jenny Doyle: “Do I Really Belong in a Hospice Program Yet?”
- 16 Jasmine Claude: A Study in Faith
- 17 Katie Melnick: Living and Dying with God
- 18 Susan Mulroney: A Private Matter
- 19 Costas Metrakis: “It Was Not a Peaceful Death”
- 20 Joey Court: Death of a Child
- 21 Paula Ferrari: Another Triumph of the Spiritual Over the Practical
- 22 Research Methods
- 23 Authors' Comments and Questions for Discussion
- Bibliography
- Index of Themes
Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges
Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges
- Chapter:
- (p.151) 9 Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges
- Source:
- Crossing Over
- Author(s):
David Barnard (Contributor Webpage)
Patricia Boston R.N.
Anna Towers
Yanna Lambrinidou
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the case of 62-year-old Leonard Patterson, who was diagnosed with colon cancer. Marred by his poverty, difficult relationships with his family, and unmanageable pain, Mr. Patterson's was a plethora of unresolved problems, specifically in his final days. Although the hospice exerted painstaking efforts to provide him with a peaceful death and his family with a smooth transition to life without him, Mr. Patterson's case left many of its participants unsettled. It also raised many questions, such as whether the best palliative care can ease shattered lives that are socially, economically, and culturally unique and different.
Keywords: colon cancer, difficult relationships, poverty, unmanageable pain, hospice, transition, shattered lives
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 2 Raymond Hynes: When the Storm of a Lifetime Hits in Mid-Dance
- 3 Albert Hoffer: Bonds Through Thick and Thin
- 4 Klara Bergman: Burdens from the Past
- 5 Frances Legendre: The Price of a Death of One's Own
- 6 Shamira Cook: “Who Am I?”
- 7 Rose Picard: “I'm Allowed to Be Happy Even Though I'm Dying”
- 8 Victor Sloski: “I Want to Die at Home”
- 9 Leonard Patterson: Jagged Edges
- 10 Miriam Lambert: Total Pain and the Despair of an Unlived Life
- 11 Sadie Fineman: A Question of Denial?
- 12 Stanley Gray: “Like Lazarus, He Came Back from the Dead”
- 13 Martin Roy: Trying to Live and Die Well
- 14 Richard Johnson: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
- 15 Jenny Doyle: “Do I Really Belong in a Hospice Program Yet?”
- 16 Jasmine Claude: A Study in Faith
- 17 Katie Melnick: Living and Dying with God
- 18 Susan Mulroney: A Private Matter
- 19 Costas Metrakis: “It Was Not a Peaceful Death”
- 20 Joey Court: Death of a Child
- 21 Paula Ferrari: Another Triumph of the Spiritual Over the Practical
- 22 Research Methods
- 23 Authors' Comments and Questions for Discussion
- Bibliography
- Index of Themes
