The VA is now providing "palliative care" at his Day Care visits. And no, it is not the same as hospice care. Palliative care is presently in vogue among the medical community, providing invaluable assistance to patients whose care doctors and medics are too busy to be involved in. That's how I interpret it. An accompanying benefit is providing assistance to the caretakers of the palliative care patients. I qualify now as a caretaker, so every so often I get an email with helpful information and suggestions. Today's was a list of helpful hints, one of which was anecdotal in nature, intended to show how one woman caretaker found a way to relieve the stress of her duties. During the day she would write down on a piece of paper all the things she found negative and distasteful, and then, at the end of the day, she brought the piece of paper to the seashore and set the paper adrift in the ocean.
So a Viking Funeral for a piece of paper may relieve stress? In what world do the people live who come up with this stuff? And who in any world would believe a story like this? I wonder how much stress would lessen if the negative thoughts were written on tissue paper and flushed down the toilet. Not all of us live near the ocean...
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