Summer days passing while waiting in isolation
for the lab results.
He needed a glimpse of hope.
“Mom, I just want to go home
and lay down in the grass.”
Imagine… a lush green cushion
warmed by soft sun;
a gentle breeze…
wrapped in the comforting arms
of Mother Nature.
Kathleen Flanagan is a recently retired pediatric nursing instructor at UMASS Dartmouth College of Nursing.
The morning of 9/11.
My son was beginning month four on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Tuft’s Medical. Leukemia.
On the windowsill in his isolation room I watched the Boston streets empty. A sense of fear and foreboding permeated the walls of my sadness and diminishing hope.
All unimaginable.
Kathleen Flanagan is a recently retired pediatric nursing instructor at UMass Dartmouth. Her son battled leukemia for three-and-a-half years and died on November 19 2001 in Boston. Tuft’s Medical was their home for his last six months, and the care he received was incredible.