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Kids grieve differently than adults. What that looks like for us and things that help.

Waivers looked optional to me at first — until I realized they were the key to stabilizing our nursing care and our home. They’re complicated, slow, and absolutely worth it.

by Lauren Roschen, NP Home Care Nurses are not babysitters. Assuming this does a disservice to the credibility of the nurses who choose to go into this line of work, and fails to recognize their value. Nurses like Lauren should be celebrated.

I’ve written some hard things about healthcare — and at times about nursing. I stand by those critiques. But they’re incomplete without this truth too: some of the nurses who walked with our family were extraordinary. Not saints. Not superheroes. Human — and at their best, deeply skilled, fiercely compassionate, and quietly life-changing. This is for the ones who showed up and carried us when we couldn’t carry ourselves.