Last week I attended the annual World Burn Congress in Providence, Rhode Island. To describe it as a love-fest feels too hippyish, but the sense of community fostered certainly operates as an incubator for warm fuzzies, growth and healing. Continue reading “Awakening”
Patterns
Medical advances can save people with huge burns and major traumas in today’s world. But heroic doctors can’t make a person want to keep living… The coping skills of a life before tragedy, whether healthy or unhealthy, shape the patient’s recovery in many ways. Continue reading “Patterns”
About Me
“About Me” is one of the headings for a project I am working on, cataloguing the lives of survivors who volunteer for peer support at the burn center. Continue reading “About Me”
Ink
Ink to paper
Linking thought and emotion
Disclosure fostering awareness
An inkling of the unknown
Becoming clear Continue reading “Ink”
Room 648
The new burn center at Columbia St. Mary’s in Milwaukee has a gorgeous view of Lake Michigan. It’s been open for a couple of years. I remember being in the old part of the hospital thirty years ago, in a building right next door.
Room 648. The one with the cross on the ceiling, anchoring me to reality and hope. Continue reading “Room 648”