From Sun to Sun

A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying

Nina Angela McKissock

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631528095
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Twenty-one people of different ages have one thing in common; they’re within six months of their deaths. They’ve endured the battle of the medical system as they sought cures for their illnesses, and are now settling in to die. Some reconcile, some don’t. Some are gracious, some not. As Nina Angela McKissock, a highly experienced hospice nurse, goes from home to home and within the residential hospice, she shares her journey of deep joy, humorous events, precious stories, and heartbreaking love. Free of religiosity, dogma, or fear, From Sun to Sun brings readers into McKissock’s world—and imparts the profound lessons she learns as she guides her beloved patients on their final journey.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• Chapter One The Farm
• Chapter Two The Team
• Chapter Three Rick Gallen
• Chapter Four Adele Greenberg
• Chapter Five Peter
• Chapter Six Mrs. McDowell
• Chapter Seven Clarentine
• Chapter Eight John Ellicot
• Chapter Nine Karl Gabler
• Chapter Ten May I Touch You?
• Chapter Eleven The Farm, and Gloria
• Chapter Twelve My Sister MaryJane
• Chapter Thirteen Morgan Harwell
• Chapter Fourteen Kenneth MacKenzie
• Chapter Fifteen Italy
• Chapter Sixteen Eric Ranshousen
• Chapter Seventeen Juliet Simon
• Chapter Eighteen Franco Volpe
• Chapter Nineteen Suzanne
• Chapter Twenty Mike
• Chapter Twenty - One Walter Reynolds
• Chapter Twenty - Two Evelyn
• Chapter Twenty - Three Freddie, Others
• Chapter Twenty - Four Everitt Banks
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author