by Jen Blalock | Jul 28, 2022 | Caregiving, Hospice and Palliative Care
In January of 2003, my mom was diagnosed with bone cancer. We quickly learned that cancer in the bones is normally a secondary cancer representing a metastasis from a primary source. In her case, she had two primary sources: a tumor in the lung and one on the base of...
by Jen Blalock | Jul 27, 2022 | About Death Doulas
Death Doula Cincinnati exists because of a dream that turned into a calling which is now being answered. Here is Jen’s telling of her dream: The Dream In the dream, my maternal grandmother who died in 1984, was dead and lying on a stone slab. She was wearing a white...
by Jen Blalock | Jul 1, 2022 | Death and Dying
With nervous tears, Gabriela, the office manager, let me know that Lilian, a longtime club member and serious Bridge player, would be dying at the end of the week on Friday. At the time, I was President of the American International Women’s Club in Geneva,...
